Description: Fragment from the upper edge of a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.12 × h: 0.125 × d: 0.115-0.07).

Text: Inscribed on the upper rim above a sculpted area.

Letters: Standard type, perhaps Antonine; 0.022.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, in the Pool: PT.SW III.90, F.44

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1990)

Translation

. . ?imp]ious and [accursed . . .

Commentary

Possibly a name, ? Εὐσε]βὴς κα[ί .., but another name, e.g. Κά[νδιδος or a word are possible.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)