Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.657. Funerary fragment

Description: Two fragments, not quite joining, from a sarcophagus front. a: right side fragment (w: 0.24 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.18); b: cut down fragment, perhaps with original lower edge (w: 0.27 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.18) .

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.017

Date: third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): excavations, mid area

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]ΩΝ
[--- θεᾷ? Ἀφροδ]είτῃ
[--- τῆς ἐπιγράφης ἀπετέθη ἀντ]ίγρα-
[φον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλ]άκι̣ο̣[ν ἐπὶ στε]φανηφ-
5[όρου c. 15 μηνὸς] πένπτο[υ c. 6] Υ̣ΛΕΟ
[c. 25] ( vac. 18)

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]ΩΝ
[---........]ΕΙΤΗ
[---......................]ΙΓΡΑ
[...............]ΑΚ..[.......]ΦΑΝΗΦ
5[....···············.....]ΠΕΝΠΤΟ[.······].ΛΕΟ
[·························]                                    

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] to Aphrodite [ . . . ] copy [ . . . in the] property-archive [in the ste]phaneph[orate of x . . . ]fifth [month . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 76.113, 76.145

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1977)