Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

9.103. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment of white marble sarcophagus front, broken at all sides (w: 0.23 × h: 0.275 × d: 0.085).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.025

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion: W. Seb. II, -81, from wall of village house.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1982)

Interpretive

[------]
[--- κηδευθή]σονται Δ[---]
[---]Ν ὁ προδη[λούμενος ---]
[--- Δ]ιογενεί[---]
[---]Υ ἔτ[ερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ---]
5[---]Ι̣Ε̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---.......]ΣΟΝΤΑΙΔ[---]
[---]ΝΟΠΡΟΔΗ[........---]
[---.]ΙΟΓΕΝΕΙ[---]
[---]ΥΕΤ[............---]
5[---]..[---]
[------]

Translation

[---] they will be [buried . . . ] the aforementioned [---] no-[one else . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 81.64

Publication: IAph2007 9.103.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)