Description: White marble garland sarcophagus w: 2.23 × h: 1.01 × d: 1.09. For description see Işık 99.

Text: Inscribed along the upper edge (line 1) and in the tabella and its upper and lower mouldings. The text must have begun on the lid.

Letters: Neat examples of the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.0225-0.0275. Star for denarius. Unconventional spellings in lines 1, 4, 9, 11.

Date: Perhaps late second to first half of the third century . (lettering, spelling)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: in a field south of the Eymir-Tabae road, with 13.112, 13.153

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

[? The sarcophagus belongs to name and his wife, adoptive daughter of name, son] of Phoibos, natural daughter of Menandros, second of the name after Agathopous Ma[ ..c. 10 ..] and their surviving children. No one else shall bury in the sarcophagus since whoever has acted contrary to this is to be considered sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, and furthermore is to pay to the sacred treasury (i.e. at Rome) 3000 denarii, of which one third is to belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Attalis, daughter of Menekrates, fifth month.

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