Description: Piece from a white marble sarcophagus front w: 0.57 × h: 0.412 × d: 0.17 figuring arcades enclosing figures of which the upper part of one survives complete, with two in fragmentary form on either side.
Text: Inscribed on the upper lip (a) and around the arcades (b ).
Letters: Standard forms; 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon, West portico, on the surface.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1978) (Inv. no. 3246)
Apparatus
a: ἔστε for ἔσται. There seems no doubt of the error in the last surviving word, although the photograph may suggest that there was an attempt to insert the missing letter.
Translation
.a. . . ] of which the third part will belong to the prosecutor [ . . .]
.b. . . ] of which the third part will belong [to the prosecutor . . .]
Commentary
The formula is in standard use for funerary texts; that it appears twice should mean use for two different users. It is also unusual to cut this part of the funerary text on the arcades.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 73.23, Sarcophagus 770
Publication: IAph2007 8.506, whence Öğüş, 2018 6.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)