Description: White marble sarcophagus ( w: 2.09 × h: 0.84 × d: 0.84) with columnar arcade design. A full length male portrait in the centre, within an arch, is flanked by two figures on either side. Those on the extreme right and the second from left hold masks; the second from the right holds a lyre; that on the extreme right apparently also holds palms. The columns between the figures uphold a cornice.
Text: Inscribed on the cornice (line 1) and on the lower moulding (line 2). The text must have begun on the lid.
Letters: 0.012-0.015
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: 'In a house yard' (MAMA)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: ΤΥΝΩΙΥΑΙΣΚΑΙΑΙΣΟΠΟΙΟ Reichel, 1893
Bibliography
Transcription: Fellows, 1840; Reichel, 1893 R.I.24, only recording the right side; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition Sarcophagus 17
Publication: Cormack, 1964 39 (from Reichel, right side only) , whence discussed Robert, 1966 386, BE 1967.545 ; IAph2007 15.314; MAMA 8 584 (complete) , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 550 ; IAph2007 11.35, whence Öğüş, 2018 41.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds, 1966)
Fig. 2. Reichel notebook, I 24