Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.542. Funerary fragments

Description: Five fragments, four of which join, of the lower edge of a sarcophagus front: a: w: 0.29 × h: 0.105 × d: 0.07; b: w: 0.29 × h: 0.105 × d: 0.06; c., d. and e., w: 0.47 × h: 0.105 × d: 0.07.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Second-third centuries CE; 0.022-0.025

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bishop's Palace: a. and b. in S.W. 'Bishop's Palace' I, Str.1.; c. in MAB 13, Tr.I and IIa, Str. 1 and 2

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]π̣ο̣ι̣ε̣[ῖν πάντα τὰ? ὑ]πὸ̣ α̣[ὐ]τ̣οῦ διατετα̣[γμένα---]
[--- κηδευθή]σονται οὓς [ἂν] αὐτὸς ὁ Ὀνήσιμος βουληθ̣[ῆ ---]

Diplomatic

[---]....[..........]Π..[.].ΟΥΔΙΑΤΕΤ.[.....---]
[---.......]ΣΟΝΤΑΙΟΥΣ[..]ΑΥΤΟΣΟΟΝΗΣΙΜΟΣΒΟΥΛΗ.[.---]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] ?to do [all those things] ordered by him in his will [---] there shall be [buried] those whom Onesimos himself wished [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, a: 67.201, b: 67.192, c: 65.350a, d: 65.350b, e: 65.350c

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment a. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Fragment a. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Fragment b. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 4. Fragments b. and c. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 5. Fragments b., c., d. and e. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 6. Fragments c., d., and e. (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 7. Fragments c., d., and e. (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 8. Fragments d. and e. (M. Roueché, 1977)