Description: Fragment from the base of a white marble
sarcophagus front (w: 0.44 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.21).
Text:
Inscribed on three fasciae of moulding.
Letters: Standard forms; lines 1-5, 0.018; lines 6 ff., 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, North-west: in a field wall north west of the Hadrianic Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1988)
Interpretive
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[---Μεν?]άνδρου τοῦ [---]
[---]Ε̣Ι ὑπὸ Αὐρ. ΧΑ̣[---]
[---]ΤΑ τοῦ χρε[οφυλακίου---]
[---]ΝΗ ἐνταφησ[---]
5[---]ΙΣ ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνθά̣[ψας ---]
[--- ἀ]φ′ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἐσται τ̣[οῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ..]
[--- τῆς ἐπι]γραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπ[έτεθη εἰς τὸ]
[χρεοφυλάκιο]ν ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ΣΙ̣Ι̣[---]
( vac. 3) τὸ β μηνὸς ζ ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
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[---...]ΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥ[---]
[---].ΙΥΠΟΑΥΡΧ.[---]
[---]ΤΑΤΟΥΧΡΕ[.........---]
[---]ΝΗΕΝΤΑΦΗΣ[---]
5[---]ΙΣΕΠΕΙΟΕΝΘ.[...---]
[---.]Φ′ΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ.[..............··]
[---......]ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΑΠ[..........]
[...........]ΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΣ..[---]
ΤΟΒΜΗΝΟΣΖ
Translation
Elements from a funerary prohibition, with perhaps the name Menandros, and an Aurelius Cha-. Reference to burial, to a penalty;
to a deposit in the property archive under a stephanephoros, for the second time, whose name is lost, in the 7th month.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Village 16
Publication: IAph2007 11.510.
