Description: White marble garland sarcophagus, with lid, (length 2.10).

Text: Inscribed on the lid, lines 1-3, on the upper rim, line 4, on the tabella including its upper and lower mouldings (w: 0.58 × h: 0.56) lines 5-19, and on the face below, lines 20-22

Letters: Quite well-designed and cut in the second-to-fourth-century style, line 1, 0.025; lines 2ff., 0.018-0.02. lines 2, 3, are interrupted by the projections on the lid. Star for denarius; slanting strokes before and after the figures in line 18, bars above the figures in line 22.

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east in chamber tomb, with 13.111 (=410), 13.108 (=411), 13.109 (=412), 13.101 (=415).

Original location: Necropolis, North-east: chamber tomb

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

The sarcophagus and the burial places below it are (the property) of Marcus Aurelius Apollonios son of Tiberius Claudius Menestheus. Within the sarcophagus Apollonios will be buried and his son Proklos and anyone else whom Apollonios or his son Proklos wishes or specifies. No one else shall have the right to bury anyone (here), except those whom Apollonios or his son Proklos specifies, since whoever has undertaken to do such a thing shall pay to Aphrodite as sacred money 2500 denarii, of which one third shall belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this was deposited in the Property-archive in the stephanephorate of Hermolaos son of Poseidippos, in the third month

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