Description: White marble garland sarcophagus w: 2.12 × h: 0.94 × d: 0.89 with a central tabella (0.49 x 0.53); for full description see Işık 101.

Text: Inscribed on the front. a beside a bust of the dead man; b on the upper moulding of the tabella (lines 1-2) and within it. The text clearly began on the lid.

Letters: Neatly designed and cut, in the second-to-fourth-century style, although not perfectly aligned; 0.025; lunate ω in a. ; star for denarius.

Date: Perhaps late second to early third centuries . (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: W. Bou. Ch. 5, Str. 1.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2013b

(b, lines 11-12): eleventh stephanephorate of Apollonios Papias

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

a: I am alive

b.[...] and in addition to pay to the goddess Aphrodite 3,000 denarii, and in addition to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 6,000 denarii, of which a third shall belong to the prosecutor. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the Property-archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Apollonios son of Papias in the month of Caesar.

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