Description: Fragment from the short end of a highly decorated white marble sarcophagus lid (1.15)
Text: Inscribed (l. 1) on the edge (0.03) and (lines 2 ff.) on the vertical projection (w: 0.28 × h: 0.22)
Letters: Irregular, ?late; lunate sigma, epsilon, omega; 0.025 (line 1) - 0.05
Date: Second to fourth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
The tomb and the space for it belong to M. Aurelius Menandros son of Agapomenos son of Phemides. They are alive.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 450
Images
Fig. 1. View (M. Roueché, 1994)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)