Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

6.102. Funerary fragment from Basilica

Description: Fragment from a white marble panel perhaps with back but no edges (w: 0.19 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.09).

Text: Inscribed on the face which is worn, perhaps by water.

Letters: Standard second to third century forms; no measurements.

Date: Probably third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Basilica: Found on the surface: PT W 90 F.48

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[--- Αὐ]ρ̣ηλιο[---]
[---]ΑΖ̣ΩΣ[---]
[--- ἐπὶ? στεφαν]ηφ̣όρο[υ ---]
[---]Ι̣ΑΥ[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---..].ΗΛΙΟ[---]
[---]Α.ΩΣ[---]
[---.........]Η.ΟΡΟ[.---]
[---].ΑΥ[---]
[------]

Apparatus

In lines 1, 3 it is impossible to be sure of the case of the partly surviving words; line 2 may have contained a personal name - Ζώσιμος or Ζωσίμη, for example.

Translation

No useful translation possible

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 90.q

Publication: IAph2007 6.102; Reynolds, 2008a 5, whence SEG 58.1157

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)