Description: A white marble bench-like feature, still partly buried, with flange above: w: 0.46 × h: 0.445 × d: 1.32.

Text: Inscribed on the exposed short end (which tapers from 0.46 to 0.29). In its original position, as part of a tomb, it adjoined a stone to the right (at the back of the bench) on which the text continued; that stone was apparently wider below than above.

Letters: Standard forms, ave. 0.018-0.02; dash above I in line 1 and Υ in l.4; stop after ΑΥΡ, line 2 .

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-west: in a field just east of the west city wall, from which it had probably fallen.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1989)

Translation

The burial niche which is in the vault belongs to M(arcus) Aur(elius) Steph[anos] also known as Papias, having been granted [through the] Property-archive [by . . . ] Tolmides in which [may be buried] whomever St[ephanos wishes]

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