Description:
White marble
sarcophagus lid
(w: 2.15 × h: 0.38 × d: 0.89) with sleeping erotes
at each corner in front, and gabled ends.
Text:
Inscribed on the rim, including the bosses; the text will have continued on the body of the sarcophagus
Letters: 0.018
Date: Third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Hadrianic Baths, Ambulacrum
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Village square, opposite Museum (1980)
Interpretive
[τ]ὴν σορὸν καὶ τὴν ὑποκειμένην αὐτῇ εἰσώστην κ̣α̣τ̣εσκεύασεν Αὐρ(ήλιος) Φλ(άουιος) Ἐλπιδήφ̣ορος ἐν ᾗ κεκή[δ]ευται Αὐ̣ρ̣(ήλιος) [c. 5]
Φλ(άβιος) Ἐπιτυνχάνων ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ κηδευθήσονται δὲ καὶ Αὐρ(ηλία) Φλ(αβία) Ἐλπὶς ἡ μ[ητὴ]ρ αὐτοῦ καὶ Αὐρ(ηλία) Ἀφροδεισία
Τατιανοῦ τοῦ Τατιανοῦ τ̣[ο]ῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Κρόκου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτο[ῦ κα]ὶ Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ[ρ](ήλιος) Ἐπιτυγχάνων ὁ
[κα]ὶ Ἀ̣λ̣έξ̣ιος Ἀθη̣ν̣α̣γ̣ό̣ρου [τ]ο̣ῦ̣ [Ἀ]θ̣ηνα̣γ̣όρ̣ου̣ κηδευθή̣σ̣ε̣τ̣α̣ι̣ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ [Ἐλπιδήφο]ρος ἕτ[ερος δὲ ο]ὐ̣δ̣ε̣[ις
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Diplomatic
[.]ΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΚΑΙΤΗΝΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΗΝΑΥΤΗΕΙΣΩΣΤΗΝ...ΕΣΚΕΥΑΣΕΝΑΥΡΦΛΕΛΠΙΔΗ.ΟΡΟΣΕΝΗΚΕΚΗ[.]ΕΥΤΑΙΑ..[·····]
ΦΛΕΠΙΤΥΝΧΑΝΩΝΟΠΑΤΗΡΑΥΤΟΥΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΔΕΚΑΙΑΥΡΦΛΕΛΠΙΣΗΜ[...]ΡΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΑΥΡΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΑ
ΤΑΤΙΑΝΟΥΤΟΥΤΑΤΙΑΝΟΥ.[.]ΥΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΚΡΟΚΟΥΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟ[...]ΙΜΑΥ[.]ΕΠΙΤΥΓΧΑΝΩΝΟ
[..]Ι..Ε.ΙΟΣΑΘ.....ΡΟΥ[.]..[.].ΗΝ..Ο.Ο.ΚΗΔΕΥΘ......ΔΕΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΣΟ[........]ΡΟΣΕΤ[.......]...[..---]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Aur(elius) Fl(avius) Elpidephoros constructed the sarcophagus and the burial places below it, in which has been buried Aur(elius)
Fl(avius) Epitynchanon, his father, and shall be buried Aur(elia) Fl(avia) Elpis his mother, and Aur(elia) Aphrodeisia (scil. daughter of) Tatianos the (scil. son of) Tatianos the (scil. son of) Alexandros the (scil. the son of) Krokos, his wife and M(arcus) Aur(elius) Epitynchanon also known as Alexis, (scil. son of) Athenagoras the (scil. son of) Athenagoras. There shall also be buried Elpidephoros himself, but no-one else [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 67.214
