Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.124. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragments from the top of a white marble sarcophagus front with upper rim: a: part of a head in relief below, w: 0.14 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.12; b: w: 0.26 × h: 0.19 × d: 0.12

Text: Inscribed on the rim.

Letters: Second to third centuries, 0.022

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico, SE 86-I

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

a
[---]Σ̣ΟΜΕΝ[---]
b
[---]Δ̣ΡΟΥΤΟ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---].ΟΜΕΝ[---]
b
[---].ΡΟΥΤΟ[---]

Apparatus

a.1: [---κηδευθη?]σ̣ομεν[---] JMR

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Not usefully translatable

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 86.62, 86.63.

Publication: a: Chaniotis, 2024 43.

Images

Fig. 1. b: Face (M. Roueché, 1988)