IAph: 4.313. ?Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment broken on all sides (w: 0.23 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.14) from a panel (?sarcophagus front) with broad moulding above, and a right-facing male figure with a spear or staff in his right hand (left hand and lower part lost) in relief below.

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (lines 1-3) and on either side of figure

Letters: Line 1, 0.012; line 3, 0.01; line 2 and 4ff., 0.006 .

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon excavations, Tr.5, top soil.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

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( vac. 3) ῥέξας ΜΗΝ[---]
( vac. 4)((scroll)) σεισμοῦ [---]
[Ζ]ωτικοῦ̣ [---]
εἴ ((#head)) τις ΑΦ̣[---]
5Λ̣Μ ((#head)) ΑΛΗΝ [--- τέ?]
κν((#head))ου ΜΗ̣[---]
( vac. 3) ((#head)) ΒΙ[---]
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Diplomatic

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      ΡΕΞΑΣΜΗΝ[---]
         ΣΕΙΣΜΟΥ[---]
[.]ΩΤΙΚΟ.[---]
ΕΙ #head ΤΙΣΑ.[---]
5.Μ #head ΑΛΗΝ[---..]
ΚΝ #head ΟΥΜ.[---]
       #head ΒΙ[---]
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