Description: Piece from the top of a white marble block (w: 0.27 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.09). The face slopes backwards at the top; it is probably,
therefore, part of a sarcophagus front.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Irregular: lines 1-2, 0.018; lines 3, 5-8, 0.02; l.4, 0.02-0.023; line 9 not measurable.
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Theatre Baths: South Aula Thermale, Stratum I, at -1.10
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
[---]( vac. 1) ἐν δὲ τ[---]
[---]( vac. 1) τῇ μίᾳ κε̣[κηδ ---]
[ ἐν δὲ τῇ] ἑτέρᾳ κηδευθ̣[ήσονται ---]
[οὓς ἂν διατά]ξηται ὁ Καπιτω[λεῖνος? ---]
5[ἐν δὲ ταῖς εἰσωσ]ταις οὐδεὶς ἕτ[ερος ---]
[---]Ι̣ΑΙ χωρὶς οὗ ἂ[ν βουληθῆ αὐτός ---]
[--- κ]αὶ ὑπεύθυνο̣[ς ---]
[---]ταύτης τῆ[ς ἐπιγραφῆς ---]
[---ἐπ]ὶ̣ σ̣τ̣ε̣[φανηφόρου---]
[---]
Diplomatic
[---] ΕΝΔΕΤ[---]
[---] ΤΗΜΙΑΚ.[...---]
[......]ΕΤΕΡΑΚΗΔΕΥ.[.......---]
[..........]ΞΗΤΑΙΟΚΑΠΙΤΩ[......---]
5[.............]ΤΑΙΣΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΤ[....---]
[---].ΑΙΧΩΡΙΣΟΥΑ[.............---]
[---.]ΑΙΥΠΕΥΘΥΝ.[.---]
[---]ΤΑΥΤΗΣΤΗ[..........---]
[---..]....[.........---]
[---]
Translation
[---] in the [ . . . in ]one ?has been buried [---] in the other will be buried [ . . . whomever] Kapitoleinos may determine. [In the burial] niches no one else [---] except whover he [may wish . . . ] and subject [ . . . a copy of ] this inscription [was deposited in the property -archive
when so and so was] ste[phanephoros . . . ]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 74.166
Publication: IAph2007 8.711.
