Description: Block (w: 0.94 × h: 0.74 × d: 0.31) from a funerary monument with a tabella ansata in relief, and showing a cut away for a gabled element below; the right side has been lost, except for a surviving fragment giving the ends of lines 3 and 5.

Text: Inscribed on the face within the tabella (die, surviving, w: 0.58 × h: 0.29), whose right moulding and handle are lost.

Letters: Lines 1-6, 0.03; line 7, 0.045; rather uneven; diairesis on either side of initial Υ in line 2, first Ε in line 3; dot for stop.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Εxcavation of the Walls, South (east part), trench 4, on the inside.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1976)

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

The funerary platform belongs to Tiberius Claudius Julianus, son of Flavianus. No-ne else shall be buried in the platform except those whom Julianus wishes and may have specified. He is alive.

Images