Description: Part of the front of a white marble arcaded sarcophagus (w: 0.60 × h: 0.71 × d: 0.11) cut down for re-use as a Byzantine tomb-cover. Parts of two arcades survive
Text: Inscribed within the arcade on the left, of which the right side survives; the arcade on the right enclosed a figure, which has been erased and overcut with a cross. The text may have continued in further arcades to the right of the figure.
Letters: Second to third centuries C.E. standard forms; 0.018
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias, in situ in the cemetery on the south side of the Tetrapylon.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
13: [σώματα] Öğüş, 2018
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
. . . in which will be buried Polychronios himself and Aurelia Juliane (scil. daughter) of Julianus son of Epagathos, his wife; but no one will have authority to bury anyone else or to exhume ?any of the remains [since such a person] will be [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 83.67, Sarcophagus 754.
Publication: Öğüş, 2018 80, whence SEG 69.711 E
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)