IAph: 8.251. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the lower part of a sarcophagus front moulded below (w: 0.23 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.12).

Text: Inscribed in the inset face (lines 1-4) and on the lower moulding (lines 5-6).

Letters: 0.015-0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: North analemma, Stratum 2.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

[---]ΑΤΙ̣Ι̣[---]
[---]Ι̣ αὐτο[---]
[--- κηδ?]ευθησέ̣[ται ---]
[---]Λ̣Ε καὶ ΜΥ[---]
5[---] μ̣ος ὁ προ+[---]
[---]Σ̣ κα̣ὶ τ̣ὸ̣ Τ[---]

[---]ΑΤ..[---]
[---].ΑΥΤΟ[---]
[---...]ΕΥΘΗΣ.[...---]
[---].ΕΚΑΙΜΥ[---]
5[---].ΟΣΟΠΡΟ·[---]
[---].Κ.Ι..Τ[---]

Apparatus

5: e.g. προδ̣ [ηλούμενος] , προγ̣ [εγράμμενος]
6: Σ could be Ε; Ο could be Ω

Transcription: New York University expedition 74.136

Publication: IAph2007 8.251.

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)