Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.130. Funerary fragments

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.

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)

Interpretive

ἡ σορὸς καὶ τὸ περιοικοδο̣[μημένον μνημεῖον? ---  καὶ αἱ ἐν] α̣ὐτῷ ἰσώσται εἰσ[ὶν ..] Μάρκου
Αὐ[ρ]η̣λίου Ὀρεινοῦ( vac. 5) [--- κηδευθήσ?]ε( vac. 5)ται Ὀρεινὸς ὁ ( vac. 3)
π[ρογ]εγραμμέ( vac. 3)[νος ...] [---] αὐτο̣ῦ̣ καὶ Αὐρη[λι..] [------]

Diplomatic

ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΤΟΠΕΡΙΟΙΚΟΔ.[...............---........].ΥΤΩΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΕΙΣ[..··]ΜΑΡΚΟΥ
ΑΥ[.].ΛΙΟΥΟΡΕΙΝΟΥ          [---........]Ε          ΤΑΙΟΡΕΙΝΟΣΟ      
Π[...]ΕΓΡΑΜΜΕ      [...···---]ΑΥΤ..ΚΑΙΑΥΡΗ[..··------]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

The tonb 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 (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. Right end (M. Roueché, 1985)


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