Description: Fragment of a white marble columnar sarcophagus: ornately decorated. Two figural scenes on either side. In the centre, a man and woman standing, flanked by columns supporting an arch above. No measurements.
Text: Inscribed a: below the arch and between the heads of the central couple; b: Across the figures in the scenes on the left, below a (ΝΙ) and across the scene on the right.
Letters: a: 0.02; b: 0.05; square sigma
Date: Third century CE (material context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, North aisle, north-west
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Museum
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 84.223, Sarcophagus 163
Publication: Bielefeld, 2004 (a only), whence SEG 54.1055; Öğüş, 2018 220, whence IAM 2019.234, whence SEG 69.711 C.
Images
Fig. 1. Front (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 2. Front (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. Detail (M. Roueché, 1985)