Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.249. Sarcophagus fragment

Description: Part of the right side of a sarcophagus front (w: 0.215 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.09) inscribed partly within, and partly on, a tabella ansata.

Text: lines 1, 3, 6 inscribed on the moulding; b. on the ansa.

Letters: a. 0.015; b. 0.035

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: West portico, north

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

a
[------]
[---]Σ
[---]( vac. 1)
[---]( vac. 1)
[---]( vac. 1)
[---]Ι̣
[---]ΟΥ
[---]Σ
5[---]Ε̣
[---]Υ̣Σ
[---] ( vac. 1)
b
[Ζῶ?]σιν

Diplomatic

a
[------]
[---]Σ
[---]  
[---]  
[---]  
[---].
[---]ΟΥ
[---]Σ
5[---].
[---]
[---]  
b
[..]ΣΙΝ

Translation

a. Not usefully translatable.

b. They are living.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.223

Publication: IAph2007 8.249.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)