Description: Left and right end fragments of a white marble sarcophagus lid (left end: w: 0.50 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.41; right end (no measurements) carrying sleeping Erotes at the corners.
Text: Inscribed on the rim and in a prepared area below (surface w: 0.62 × h: 0.17), which was interrupted by pendants from the rim. The text will have coninued on the body of the sarcophagus.
Letters: 0.02; Υ within Ο in line 2.
Date: Third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico: south-west corner
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1985)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
The tomb and the surrounding [memorial and the] niches [in] it belong to Marcus Aurelius Oreinos [ . . . in it is/will be buried ] Oreinos the aforementioned [. . . and ] his [ . . .] and Aure[li- . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, left end 84.59, Portico of Tiberius 7, Sarcophagus 70; right end in 1988, Sarcophagus 71
Publication: Chaniotis, 2024 45 (left side only).
Images
Fig. 1. Left end (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1969)
Fig. 2. Left end (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. Right end (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1992)
Fig. 4. Right end (M. Roueché, 1985)