Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.132. Funerary fragment

Description: Lower part of a broken white marble sarcophagus (w: 1.53 × h: 0.62 × d: 0.84).

Text: Inscribed in an area much damaged

Letters: Poorly cut; 0.02-0.25; lunate epsilon, sigma

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[c. 10]ΨΝ ἰδιω[---]
ΚΟΥ ἐνταφήϲ[εται] Μελτίνη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ [---]
θαψε τοὺϲ ΑΚΤΟΕΜΑΤΟΥϹ αὐτοῦ ἕτεροϲ δὲ οὐδεὶϲ ἕξει [---]
ΝΑ οὔτε εἰϲ τὴν ϲορὸν οὔτε εἰϲ [τὰϲ] ἰϲϲ[ῶϲταϲ ---]

Diplomatic

[··········]ΨΝΙΔΙΩ[---]
ΚΟΥΕΝΤΑΦΗϹ[....]ΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΗΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΥΤΟΥ[---]
ΘΑΨΕΤΟΥϹΑΚΤΟΕΜΑΤΟΥϹΑΥΤΟΥΕΤΕΡΟϹΔΕΟΥΔΕΙϹΕΞΕΙ[---]
ΝΑΟΥΤΕΕΙϹΤΗΝϹΟΡΟΝΟΥΤΕΕΙϹ[...]ΙϹϹ[.....---]

Translation

[---] Meltine his daughter will be buried [ . . .] to bury [---] no-one else will have [ authority to bury anyone] neither in the sarcophagus nor in the burial niches[---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 435

Publication: IAph2007 13.132.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)


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