Description: A: Two joining white marble pieces forming the left hand block of a composite monument (together w: 1.13 × h: 0.71 × d: 0.32) with a hole on top for an attachment. B: Right hand block w: 1.56 × h: 0.72 × d: 0.36 with badly chipped surface to left.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Perhaps first-second century; ave 0.055
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part), by the NYU excavations on the outer face of excavated stretch.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: block A in Museum, block B in situ.
Apparatus
1: Ν Fellows, 1840 at line end
2: Η Fellows, 1840 at line end
4: At end Fellows saw nothing
5: Perhaps Περειτ]ας ]ΣΕ Fellows, 1840 at line end
6: ]ΤΟΣ Fellows, 1840 at line end
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
The memorial and the [sarcophagus] on it and the burial places within it, T. Flavius [ . . ? . . ] prepared for himself and for those whom he wished or instructed.
Bibliography
Transcription: Fellows, 1840; Loew, 1841; New York University expedition in 1978
Publication: Fellows, 1841 57, whence CIG II.3, 1843 2850d , Franz, 1847 a.17 (mention) , McCabe, PHI, 1996 526 ; IAph2007 12.611.
Images
Fig. 1. Left hand block (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Right hand block (M. Roueché, 1980)