Description: Fragment from a white marble
sarcophagus lid (0.69 long); the right end has been lost since Kubitschek recorded it.
Text: On the front mouldings of the lid, interrupted by a projecting panel with ΣΙΝ (from Ζῶσιν) in large letters. The text must
have continued on the face of the sarcophagus.
Letters: Standard second to third centuries C.E. forms; lines 1, -2, 0.018; 3-4, 0.02; . . ΣΙΝ, on projection, 0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, North-east:
Östlich von Aphrodisias, zwischen 2 Weinbergen (Kubitschek); stray find (1994)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
i
[c. 20]ΑΙ ἐστι Μάρκου Αὐ̣ρηλ̣ίου Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ Ἰουλιανοῦ υἱοῦ Τίτο<υ> Αὐρη̣[λίου---]
[c. 20] Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ προγεγραμμένος καὶ Αὐρ(ηλία) Ἐ̣λπὶς Ἀδράστου [---]
[c. 18 οὐ]δ̣εὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ ἐκθά | ψαι τῶν προγ[ε-]
[γραμμένων ἐπεὶ ὁ παρὰ τα]ῦτα τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ τ̣υμ | βωρύχος κα[ὶ]
5[------] ii
Diplomatic
i
[····················]ΑΙΕΣΤΙΜΑΡΚΟΥΑ.ΡΗ.ΙΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥΤΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥΥΙΟΥΤΙΤΟΑΥΡ.[....---]
[····················]ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΣΟΠΡΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΟΣΚΑΙΑΥΡ.ΛΠΙΣΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥ[---]
[··················..].ΕΙΣΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΗΕΚΘΑ | ΨΑΙΤΩΝΠΡΟΓ[.-]
[....................]ΥΤΑΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΑΣΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗΣΚΑΙ.ΥΜ | ΒΩΡΥΧΟΣΚΑ[.]
5[------] ii
Apparatus
Text seen by Kubitschek but not by us highlighted.
Translation
i. [ . . . and the burial niches] belong to Marcus Aurelius Ioulianos son of Ioulianos son of Titus Aure[lius . . . ]the
aforementioned Ioulianos and Aurelia Elpis daughter of Adrastos [ . . .] no one will have authority to bury anyone or exhume
of those afore[mentioned, since he who] acts contrary to this let him be impious and a grave-robber and [---]
ii. They are alive.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.17, Abklatsch 89; New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 446
Publication: Cormack, 1964 10 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 451 ; IAph2007 13.143.
