Description: White marble sarcophagus, decorated with columns and garlands, and with a recumbent figure on the lid, which is broken to right (w: 2.25 × h: 1.35 × d: 0.93).

Text: Inscribed (line 1) along front of lid (w: 1.50 × h: 0.07) and in tabella ansata (w: 0.29 × h: 0.45); apparently reused.

Letters: Individually quite well designed, but less well cut and, in the tabella, poorly aligned with very uneven heights, 0.045-0.065; probably second to third centuries; Ϲ and for sigma, often oval omicron, v for hypsilon. Unconventional spelling in line 1.

Date: Perhaps late second to early third centuries . (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis: North-east, Turkish cemetery

Original location: Necropolis, North-east

Last recorded location: Museum (1978) (Inv. no. 83)

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

The sarcophagus and the plot [c. 6 - 7] belong to Dionysios, fourth of the name from Diogenianos.

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