Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.115. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment of a white marble sarcophagus lid (w: 0.56 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.29).

Text: Inscribed on the rim.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: North portico

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---ἐν ᾗ σο]ρ̣ῷ̣ κηδευθήσεται αὐτό[ς ---]
[---]ΚΟΥ καὶ Φ̣Λ̣ΙΔΙΟΣ̣Ε̣Α̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---.....]..ΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΕΤΑΙΑΥΤΟ[.---]
[---]ΚΟΥΚΑΙ..ΙΔΙΟ...[---]

Apparatus

1: π]ρ̣ο̣κηδευθήσεται IAph2007
2: Perhaps Φλ(άβιος?) IAph2007

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . in which ] sarcophagus shall be buried [x] himself [ . . . ] and [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Portico 9

Publication: IAph2007 4.115; Chaniotis, 2024 42.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)