Description: White marble sarcophagus lid w: 1.30 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.74
Text: Inscribed on the edge which is damaged and, at left end, covered by other debris; the text will have continued on the body of the sarcophagus.
Letters: Standard forms; lunate sigma, epsilon. omega; 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1994)
Translation
[The sarcophagus and] the place on which the sarcophagus is placed and the burial niches belong to Mar[cus Aurelius Apollo]nios son of Demetrios son of Apollonios [---] and his wife Aurelia [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 440
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)