Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.540. Funerary fragment, second to third cent.

Description: White marble fragment of panel or sarcophagus front (w: 0.35 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.09) with back but no edges surviving; ? traces of burning.

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.

Letters: Lines 1-3 in standard second to third century script, 0.03; lines 4-5 inscribed in rasura, irregular alignment and cursive epsilon, 0.03-0.035.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bishop's Palace: MAB 13, Tr. 1, Str. 1.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

i
[------]
[---]+[---]
[---]Ι̣Λ̣ΙΟΙ̣[---]
[---Ε]ὐπ̣ρ̣έπης ΤΑ[---]
ii
[---δι?]ὰ τῶν ἀρχίω̣[ν---]
[---]ιου τοῦ Ε̣ὐ[---]
[---]( vac. )

Diplomatic

i
[------]
[---]·[---]
[---]..ΙΟ.[---]
[---.]Υ..ΕΠΗΣΤΑ[---]
ii
[---..]ΑΤΩΝΑΡΧΙ.[.---]
[---]ΙΟΥΤΟΥ.Υ[---]
[---]      

Apparatus

i.1: traces of horizontal base survive, as of Ε, Σ, etc.

Translation

. . . E]uprepes [ . . . ] archives [ . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 65.340

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)