Description: White marble block from a composite funerary monument, broken at both ends (w: 1.01 × h: 0.36 × d: 1.30). Moulded back and front.
Text: Inscribed on the front on two fasciae: line 1 above moulding, lines 2-4 below.
Letters: Standard forms, 0.03.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-west: reused upside down, and partly buried at the west end of the south wall
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)
Translation
[---] the place on which the memorial lies through [ . . . ] written [on the] sarcophagus to be destroyed, both himself [---] nor women to give birth naturally nor [ . . . all his race and [from] sacred altars [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 120; Lines 2-4 copied in 1975, line 1 in 1976.
Images
Fig. 1. Lines 2-4 (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 2. Lines 2-4 (M. Roueché, 1975)