Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.216. Funerary fragment

Description: Two fragments of a white marble column sarcophagus inscribed on the lower edge.

Text: a. Inscribed area w: 0.57 × h: 0.035; b. Inscribed area w: 0.48 × h: 0.035

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Water Channel area III, Tr.1, Str. 1, at - 2.30

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

a
[---]Ν τὸ γεγραπτόν ((scroll))
b
[--- χαῖρ]ε παροδῖτα καὶ στ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]ΝΤΟΓΕΓΡΑΠΤΟΝ
b
[---....]ΕΠΑΡΟΔΙΤΑΚΑΙΣΤ[---]

Translation

a. . . . ] which is written.

b. [?farewell] passer-by, and [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 63.597, Sarcophagus 349

Publication: IAph2007 11.216, whence Öğüş, 2018 81, IAM 2019.224.

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