Description: Piece from the right side of a block, probably the bottom and possibly the top, where there is a cut edge also (w: 0.255 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.305).
Text: Inscribed on one face; it is likely that at least the last two lines of the inscription continued on another block to the right.
Letters: Late Hellenistic; line 1, 0.01; lines 2 ff. 0.013-0.015.
Date: Late Hellenistic. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): found fallen from the eastern wall near the car park.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1988)
Apparatus
7: The sigma to the right seems clearly separate from the main text, but is in the same hand: perhaps a name?
8: It is unclear whether there is any more text at the end of the line
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ]but/and who [ . . . ] decades [ . . . ] that envy took me [ . . . ] Sosia/of Sosias [ . . . ] but I leave grief to those who reared [me ? . . . ] for history [ . . ? as the ] former time said [ . . ?
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 87.2.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)