Description: White marble column sarcophagus, with five standing figures within arcaded embrasures (w: 2.19 × h: 0.92 × d: 0.98): a central male figure flanked by two muses on either side.
Text: Inscribed line 1 along the upper edge (which is worn and damaged), and lines 2-3 on either side of the head of the central figure.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.01-0.015.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: excavated in a chamber tomb
Original location: Necropolis, North-east: chamber tomb
Last recorded location: Museum (Inv. no. 6132)
Apparatus
Line 2 apparently follows from the end of 1
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
. . . when the stephanephoros was . . Hermokrates, in the month Claudieus.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 432
Publication: Smith, 2006, Sarcophagus 7 (sarcophagus only) ; IAph2007 13.131, whence Öğüş, 2018 39.
Images
Fig. 1. Figure (M. Roueché, 1994)