Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.294. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment probably from the left edge of a sarcophagus rim (w: 0.48 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.23).

Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (lines 1-2) and on the face below.

Letters: ave. 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: North analemma, Stratum 1.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[--- οὐδενὸς] ἐξουσίαν ἔχοντος [ἐνθάψαι ---]
[--- γεγο]νότος γράμματος, ἀκύρ̣[ου? ἔστω?---]
[---]Κ̣Η̣Λ̣Ψ̣ΑΤΙΣΕ̣Ι̣̣[.]Τ̣[..] Α̣Φ̣[.]Κ̣Ε̣

Diplomatic

[------]
[---.......]ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΧΟΝΤΟΣ[.......---]
[---....]ΝΟΤΟΣΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΣΑΚΥ.[......---]
[---]....ΑΤΙΣ...[·].[··]..[·]..

Apparatus

3: Ε̣ might be Γ, or Π

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . but with no-one else] having the right [to bury in it . . . nor] with any document being invalid [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 74.102

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)