Description: White marble sarcophagus, with lid, (2.00); for description see Işık 178.

Text: a. lines 1-2 inscribed on the lower moulding of the lid, excluding the projections, lines 3-21 on the tabella impinging on all mouldings, lines 22-23 on the lower moulding of the sarcophagus. Text b. is on the projections on the lid.

Letters: Quite well-designed, cut and aligned in the second-to-fourth-century style; a line 1, 0.022; line 2, 0.025; line 3, 0.02, lines 4 ff, 0.018-0.02. b, 0.06. Star for denarius; slanting stroke before the figure in line 22 and after it in line 23.

Date: Perhaps first half of the third century . (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east in chamber tomb, with 13.111, 13.108, 13.110, 13.101.

Original location: Necropolis, North-east: chamber tomb

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

a. The sarcophagus is the property of Marcus Aurelius Alexandros, son of Hekataios the son of Dionysios the son of Zenon third from (i.e. son of Zenon son of Zenon son of) Hekataios Charmos, and of Aurelia Tatia, daughter of Alexandros, his wife; in which tomb there shall be buried Alexandros and Tatia the afore-mentioned, and Aurelii Alexandros and Alexandra the children of Alexandros son of Hekataios, their children; but no-one else will have a right to bury in it or to remove those named above. Since whoever dares to do anything of the kind is to be held sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, and in addition is to pay to the goddess Aphrodite to provide her golden adornments 1500 silver denarii. A copy of this inscribed text was deposited in the Property-Archive when Hypsikles son of Adrastos Hierax was stephanephorus for the seventh time in the month Loos, which is the month of Hadrian.

b. They are still living

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