Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.1013. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the top of a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.30 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.13).

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (lines 1-2) and below.

Letters: Standard second to third century forms; lines 1, 2, 0.018; lines 3, 4, 0.02; o with internal dot for stop.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: In the dighouse (1990)

Interpretive

[---]ΤΑΙΣΕ[---]
[---]Ι̣ΑΜΕΝ̣[---]
[εἰς τὸ χρεοφυ]λάκιον ἐπι̣[---]
[--- μη]νος ((stop)) ἑβ̣δό[μου ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΤΑΙΣΕ[---]
[---].ΑΜΕ.[---]
[...........]ΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠ.[---]
[---..]ΝΟΣ Ε.ΔΟ[...---]

Translation

. . . into the property-]archive [ . . . the ]seventh month [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 90.b

Publication: IAph2007 12.1013.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)