Description: White marble ? sarcophagus front, broken to right (w: 0.545 × h: 0.026 x depth not measurable),
Text: Inscribed within a tabula ansata (0.175).
Letters: 0.0175-0.02; unusual upside-down omega, with no central stroke, unless it was painted in; circle for stop.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village; reused in a house wall
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
1: Ἀριστίπ]/που Fellows, 1841, Le Bas and Waddington, 1870; Ἀλ̣[ύ]/που
4: Μενεϲθέος IAph2007
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
The plot belongs to Alypos son of Adrastos and Tatia his wife and Menestheos his son and their family.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
The platas is the property of A[ristip]pus, son of Adrastos and of Tatia his wife, and Menestheus their son, and their family.
Bibliography
Transcription: Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842?; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition.
Publication: Fellows, 1841 58 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 2825b (p. 1115); Bailie, 1846 85, Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1644 ; MAMA 8 535 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 416 ; IAph2007 11.10.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)