Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.296. Funerary formula

Description: Fragment probably from the front of a sarcophagus (w: 0.29 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.115), including the lower right corner of a moulded and inscribed panel.

Text: Inscribed in the panel (lines 1-2), and on the moulding below (lines 3-4); the inscription perhaps continued to the right of the sculpture to the right of the panel.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, north parodos

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[ἀσεβὴς καὶ]
[ἐπάρατ]ος
[καὶ τυμ]βω-
[ρύχος --- κ?]αὶ προσ-
[αποτεισάτω] ἱ̣ερ̣ὰ θεᾷ Ἀφ[ροδείτῃ ---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[.........]
[......]ΟΣ
[......]ΒΩ
[.....---.]ΑΙΠΡΟΣ
[..........].Ε.ΑΘΕΑΑΦ[.......---]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . considered impious and] accursed and a tomb-breaker [ . . . ] and is to [pay] as sacred to the goddess Aphrodite [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 69.393

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)