Description: Left side of a white marble block (w: 0.27 × h: 0.40 × d: 0.16)
Text: Inscribed within a roughly incised tabella ansata (die, w: 0.18 × h: 0.16). The surface of the stone is only partly dressed; the left side may have a rebate.
Letters: Roughly cut, 0.04-0.05; lunate sigma, cursive alpha
Date: Unlikely to be earlier than third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: in the north Narthex, clearing of the apse wall
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Translation
(scil. Tomb of) Chrysaphios the chief-doctor.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 65.418
Publication: Nutton, 1977 3 (from Reynolds), whence SEG 27.718 , McCabe, PHI, 1996468 ; IAph2007 1.184.
Images
Fig. 1. Right hand fragment (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)