Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.1. Funerary fragment

Description: White marble fragment from the moulded edge of a sarcophagus (w: 0.50 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.28).

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.

Letters: 0.01 and 0.02-0.0225.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North-west stretch: north-facing stretch, a little north of the standing stretch, on the inner (south) face.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[---]ΕΙ̣Σ̣Ε[---]
[--- εἰς τ]ὰς [εἰσ]ώστας ἐντ[αφῆναι ---]
[--- συνχωρήσ]η ἐν[γ]ράφως ἕτερος [δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ---]
[---ἔσται ὑπεύθυνος? προστ]είμῳ τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς τ[αύτης ἀπετέθη ---]
5[ἐπὶ στεφαν]ηφόρου τὸ β Τ̣ί̣τ̣ο̣υ̣ [...]
[---] ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---]Ε..Ε[---]
[---....]ΑΣ[...]ΩΣΤΑΣΕΝΤ[......---]
[---........]ΗΕΝ[.]ΡΑΦΩΣΕΤΕΡΟΣ[....................---]
[---...................]ΕΙΜΩΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΤ[............---]
5[.........]ΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟΒ.....[···]
[---]      

Bibliography

Transcription: Calder, 1934; New York University expedition

Publication: MAMA 8 596 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 557 ; IAph2007 13.1.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)