Description: White marble garland sarcophagus w: 2.06 × h: 0.68 × d: 0.77.
Text: Inscribed on the damaged front face within a panel which is complete, although the upper right corner has been damaged since 1904 (w: 0.265 × h: 0.185). The text must have begun above, perhaps on the lid and on the upper edge of the sarcophagus.
Letters: 0.02
Date: Monument: Late second century; Text: Probably first half of the third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: 'in a field 10 min(utes) east of the (north-east) gate' (Calder)
Original location: Unknown: necropolis
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: Underlined letters, visible on the squeeze and transliterated by Reinach, are now lost.
5: Despite lines 4-5 nothing was ever cut on the sarcophagus below this text
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2007
- - - ] The most sacred Council has the care of the sarcophagus as has been written below.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 164; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 182 ; MAMA 8 589 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 551 ; Reynolds, 2007 98 ; IAph2007 13.148.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)