Description: White marble sarcophagus, broken in two; a garland decoration has been hacked away, but traces of two winged figures at the corners remain.
Text: Lines 1-12 inscribed on the tabella, whose mouldings have been erased, lines 13 ff on a prepared panel below.
Letters: Reasonably well-designed, cut and aligned, in the second-to-fourth-century style. Unconventional spelling in line 3.
Date: Late second to early third centuries (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: standing by the main village well, next to 11.30
Original location: Unknown: necropolis
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2007
- - - ?it shall not be possible for] anyone to have the power, after the apotheosis of Pereitas and that of Melition [? to take action] ?by the agency of any of his heirs with a view to alienation of the sarcophagus or of any one of the other burial places, or to [do] anything at all with a view to alienation in any way.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Village 4
Publication: Reynolds, 2007 187, whence SEG 57.1029; IAph2007 11.52.
Images
Fig. 1. Complete (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Left part (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 3. Detail (M. Roueché, 1978)