Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

7.13. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.45 × h: 0.44 × d: 0.11), whose decoration has been ? deliberately chipped away.

Text: Inscribed along upper edge (a) and in a central tabella (b).

Letters: Standard second to third century forms; a, 0.025; b, 0.015

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Martyrion: SW complex, triconch church, south apse

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

Interpretive

a
[---]Λ̣ΣΕΙ̣[---]
b
Η[---]
ΟΥΔ̣[---]
ΛΗ[---]
ΕΥ[---]
5Ο[---]
Ε[---]
Υ̣[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---].ΣΕ.[---]
b
Η[---]
ΟΥ.[---]
ΛΗ[---]
ΕΥ[---]
5Ο[---]
Ε[---]
.[---]

Translation

No translation possible.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 93.38, I 93.31

Publication: IAph2007 7.13.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)