Description: White marble sarcophagus lid re-used as a trough (w: 1.965 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.81).

Text: Inscribed on the edge of the sarcophagus lid (w: 1.965 × h: 0.08), which is rubbed in places and pierced by several holes; some of the damage was done before the inscription was cut. The text must have continued on the box of the sarcophagus.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Probably third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: In the excavation of the Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: In the area behind the Bouleuterion/Odeon (1978)

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Titus [---] Aelius Zotikos prepared the tomb and the subsidiary niches. In the tomb his children Philetos and Ammia have been buried but no-one [else shall be placed therein ------]

French translation

Translation source: AE

T. [---] Aelius Zôtikos a fait faire le sarcophage et les compartiments qu'il contient; dans ce sarcophage ont été enterrés Philètos et Ammia, les enfants d'(Aelius ?) Zôtikos ; personne d’autre [---]

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