Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.289. Funerary inscription

Description: Upper part of a panel w: 0.40 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.07

Text: Inscribed on one face within a recess (die, w: 0.32 × h: 0.20).

Letters: Late Republican or Augustan; rho with bar; horizontal bars for stops; 0.035.

Date: Second half of the first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

Γάι(ε) Ἰούλι(ε)
Νίγερ ((stop)) χαῖρε

Diplomatic

ΓΑΙ ΙΟΥΛΙ
ΝΙΓΕΡ ΧΑΙΡΕ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Gaius Julius Niger, farewell

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 69.29

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)