Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

9.104. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the upper part of a white marble sarcophagus front, with upper edge surviving (w: 0.31 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.09).

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.025

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Sebasteion, North Portico, NE Por I, Ic.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1981)

Interpretive

[---]Α̣ΡΙ ( vac. 1) [---]
[---]ΩΝΗ[---]
[---]Ι̣Ι̣ΟΣΑΥ[---]
[βου]ληθῆ ἐνθ[άψαι ---]
5[--- συ]νχωρησ[---]
[---] ποιησ[---]
[---]Ι̣ΘΕΣΤ̣[---]
[---]Α̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---].ΡΙ  [---]
[---]ΩΝΗ[---]
[---]..ΟΣΑΥ[---]
[...]ΛΗΘΗΕΝΘ[....---]
5[---..]ΝΧΩΡΗΣ[---]
[---]ΠΟΙΗΣ[---]
[---].ΘΕΣ.[---]
[---].[---]
[------]

Apparatus

2: ὠνή[σατο?]

Translation

( Mentions of burial and of permission.)

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 81.96

Publication: IAph2007 9.104.

Images

Fig. 1. View (Reynolds, 1982)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)