Description: Fragment of white marble panel from a sarcophagus front, very worn (w: 0.90 × h: 0.55), with a rebate on three edges.
Text: Inscribed on the face; below the text is a relief of a circular object in the centre and a vertical object - a shovel? - to its left. The drawing suggests that there may have been a scroll to the left of line 4.
Letters: 0.02. Standard second to third century forms.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: Old Mosque
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)
Apparatus
1: ․․[․c.3․]ΑΣ․․ McCabe, PHI, 1996
2: Ξ̣: Σ̣ McCabe, PHI, 1996
4: β̣: Ο̣ McCabe, PHI, 1996 || μη̣: ΜΕ Cormack, 1964
Translation
[---] the copy [of the inscription was deposited in the property-archive in the stephanephorate] of Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Diogenes, ?month [of ---]
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.37.
Publication: Cormack, 1964 20 , whence, with a fuller text, McCabe, PHI, 1996 573 ; IAph2007 11.42.