Description: Fragments (not joining) from the top of a white marble sarcophagus front (0.27 thick).
a from centre, b from right corner.
Text:
Incribed on the frant, with upper edge perhaps surviving; the text could have commenced on a lid..
Letters: 0.03.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, East stretch (north part): re-used in east stretch north of East Gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Interpretive
a
[---]ΟΙ̣ΣΑ[.]ΙΣ τὸν βωμο[ν ---]
[---]ΟΥ κατὰ τ[ὴ]ν δοθεῖσαν[---]
[---]Ο̣Υ̣ Τιβερίου [Κ]λαυδίου Μ̣ [---]
[--- δη]λουμένῳ [.]ΟΥΤΟ̣Τ̣[---]
5[--- ἐπὶ στεφαν]ηφόρου ΚΑΙ̣Τ̣[---]
[--- Ἀγαθ?]όποδος προ̣[---]
[---]υμενος Ο[---]
[--- ἐν ταῖς εἰσώ]σταις κηδ[ευθησ ---]
[--- θά]ψαι τινα Ο[---]
10[--- ἐπάρατ]ος καὶ τ[υμβωρύχος ---]
[---]ὧν τὸ [τρίτον ---]
[---ἀντίγραφο]ν ἀπ̣[έτεθη.. ? ..]
[------] b
[---]Ε̣ΝΟΣ καὶ Τατία γυνὴ αὐ-
[τοῦ c. 6 καὶ ο]ὓ̣ς ἄν ἐγω βουλήθω ἢ
[---] Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣[c. 8] ε̣ἰσωσ-
[ταις ---] Σ̣ΤΕΙ̣
[------]
Diplomatic
a
[---]Ο.ΣΑ[·]ΙΣΤΟΝΒΩΜΟ[.---]
[---]ΟΥΚΑΤΑΤ[.]ΝΔΟΘΕΙΣΑΝ[---]
[---]..ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ[.]ΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ.[---]
[---..]ΛΟΥΜΕΝΩ[·]ΟΥΤ..[---]
5[---.........]ΗΦΟΡΟΥΚΑ..[---]
[---....]ΟΠΟΔΟΣΠΡ.[---]
[---]ΥΜΕΝΟΣΟ[---]
[---..........]ΣΤΑΙΣΚΗΔ[.....---]
[---..]ΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΟ[---]
10[---......]ΟΣΚΑΙΤ[.........---]
[---]ΩΝΤΟ[......---]
[---.........]ΝΑ.[....... ? ..]
[------] b
[---].ΝΟΣΚΑΙΤΑΤΙΑΓΥΝΗΑΥ
[...······....].ΣΑΝΕΓΩΒΟΥΛΗΘΩΗ
[---]...[········].ΙΣΩΣ
[....---].ΤΕ.
[------]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(Elements of a funerary prohibition.) a: mentions of an altar; of [permission] given; of Tiberius Claudius M[- . . . ] and someone else aforementioned; of a stephanephoros,
perhaps [Agatha]pous; further traces of the formula.
(b): [---] . . . in this sarcophagus there shall be buried . . . the aforesaid] and Tatia his wife [ . . . and those] whom I wish or
[prescribe . . . and in the additional?] burial places [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 2
Publication: IAph2007 12.213.
