Description: Five fragments, which do not join, from a sarcophagus front. a. Left side fragment (w: 0.58 × h: 1.11 × d: 1.28) with lower edge surviving; b. fragment from ?right side, without top or bottom edges (w: 0.40 × h: 0.64 × d: 0.18); c. fragment without edges (w: 0.22 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.21); d. fragment without edges (w: 0.23 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.19); e. fragment broken on all sides (w: 0.28 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.13) with traces of cement on the face from re-use.

Text: Inscribed on the face and within several of the wreaths, which are 0.18 in diameter. a: lines 2-5, 8-10, 14-16 within wreaths; b: lines 3-6, 10 ff. within wreaths; c: within a wreath; d: inscribed above a wreath, the upper edge of which survives, chipped; e: within a wreath.

Letters: Standard second-third-century forms, 0.015-0.02.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (terminology, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (west part) central stretch

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: a. findspot; b.-e. in Museum

Translation

(sc. He won)

a. Col. i, at Sardis, in the provincial festival of Asia, the pancration; at Laodicea, in the Claudiea, the pancration; at Mitylene, in the Ammonea, the pancration of boys and of young men;

Col. ii, [ at ?-] the pancration; at Hierapolis, the pancration; at Laodicea in Syria, the pancration;

b. ...]at Antioch in Syria, in the Pythia at Daphne, the pancration, in the Nemeia, the pancration; at Ephesus, in the Ephesea, the pancration; at Ephesus, in the provincial festival of Asia, [the pancration] of boys and of young men; [...]

c. [...], the pancration [...]

d. [... ?At Aphrodisias, ?the Aphrodisiea] ?Ado[nea] three times

e. [...] At Heraclea [...]

French translation

Translation source: Strasser, 2021

À Sardes, le Koinon Asias, dans le pancrace;

- - -, dans le pancrace;

à Laodicée, les Klaudièa, dans le pancrace;

à Hiérapolis, dans le pancrace;

à Mytilène, les Ammônèa, chez les paides et les ageneioi, dans le pancrace;

à Laodicée de Syrie, dans le pancrace;

à Antioche de Syrie, les - - -a près de Daphnè, dans le pancrace;

les Nemea, dans le pancrace;

à Éphèse, les Ephesèa, dans le pancrace;

à Éphèse, le Koinon Asias, chez les paides et les ageneioi, dans le pancrace;

- - -, dans le pancrace;

les Aphrodisèa Adônèa, trois fois;

- - -

à Héraclée

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