Description: Left side fragment of a white marble tabella ansata: w: 0.45 × h: 0.305 × d: 0.15 .
Text: inscribed on the upper moulding (line 1) and within the panel; the surfaces are badly damaged
Letters: 0.018; diaireis on second A, line 7.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: 'Mur de la maison en face la fontaine du gymnase' (Gaudin); stray find (NYU).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
Reinach could see less on the left side
3: Ρ[.......]ΚΑΙΤΟΝΣΥ̣[ ... Reinach, 1906
4: Κ[... ] Εὐτύχην ΚΑ̣[ ... Reinach, 1906
5: Θ[........]ΣΟΜΑΙ ἕτε[ρος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει] Reinach, 1906 ? κα]θ᾿ὧν διατάξομαι
6: ἐξου[σίαν] Reinach, 1906
Translation
[. . . ] male (children) [---] Eutyches [ . . .] I will bring, [no-one] else [ will have] authority to bury anyone or [ . . .] may he be (deemed) impious [---]
Commentary
This might be associated with the sarcophagus lid 11.54.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904107; New York University expedition 72.485
Publication: Reinach, 1906 178 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 478 ; IAph2007 11.44.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)