Description: Fragment apparently from a sarcophagus front (w: 0.385 × h: 0.38 × d: 0.20) cut down on left side, broken to right; lower
and perhaps upper edges survive.
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Irregular and unusual; lines 1-3, 5, 0.02; lines 4, 6, 7, 0.023
Date: Late second century (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South (east part): excavations, mid area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
[---]ΣΟΙ̣ΟΛΟΥΣΤ̣[---]
[--- ἡ μητ?]ὴρ αὐτῶν ἐν δὲ̣ [---]
[--- οὕ]ς̣ ἄν αὐτὴ βουλ̣[ηθῆ ---]
[--- τινα τῶν ἐ]ν̣ταφέντων ἐπε[ὶ ὁ τοιουτό τι ποιήσας---]
5[--- ἀποτε]ι̣σάτω τῇ βουλῇ δη[ναρία --- ὧν τὸ τρίτον]
[ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικ]ήσαντος τούτου ἀ[πετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς το χρεωφυλάκιον]
[ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ] δεύταιρον Τίτου Φλ[αβίου ---]
( vac. )
Diplomatic
[---]ΣΟ.ΟΛΟΥΣ.[---]
[---....]ΗΡΑΥΤΩΝΕΝΔ.[---]
[---..].ΑΝΑΥΤΗΒΟΥ.[...---]
[---........].ΤΑΦΕΝΤΩΝΕΠΕ[..................---]
5[---.....].ΣΑΤΩΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΔΗ[.....---..........]
[.............]ΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΤΟΥΤΟΥΑ[.................................]
[.................]ΔΕΥΤΑΙΡΟΝΤΙΤΟΥΦΛ[.....---]
vacat
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] their ?mother and in [ . . . ] whomsoever she wishes [ . . . no-one else may remove anyone] of those buried in it
since [whoever has done such a thing] is to pay to the Council [?] denarii [of which one third is to belong to the] prosecutor.
[A copy] of this [was deposited in the Property-archive when T. Flavius [? was stephanephoros] for the second time (?or in the second month)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 76.193
