Description: Two adjoining pieces of a white marble sarcophagus base, partially adapted with a view to re-use (w: 1.92 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.83).
Text: Inscribed on the moulding, which was already faulty or damaged (the lettering in lines 2 and 3 dips into a chipped area).
Letters: Second to third centuries C.E. standard forms; lines 1, 2, ave. 0.025; line 3, 0.03. Diacritical points on either side of the second Υ in line 3.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: in the tomb east of the East Wall excavated by the Museum, 1991/92.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1992)
Bibliography
Transcription: Aphrodisias Museum team in 1991/1992, whence New York University expedition 92.31, Sarcophagus 203
Publication: Smith, 1996 69 (photograph only), whence text published SEG 46.1396; IAph2007 13.127.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)