Description: White marble garland sarcophagus; see Işık 162 for description.

Text: The text must have begun on the lid. lines 1-12 within the tabella, lines 13-15 probably on its lower moulding, perhaps also on a prepared space below it (illegible on the xerox of the photograph), the remainder on the lower moulding of the chest. The text must have begun on the lid and/or the upper rim of the chest, and there may have been one more line below what survives, where the photograph suggests that the lower edge has been broken away.

Letters: Reasonably well designed, cut and aligned in the second-to-fourth-century style. Unconventional spelling in line 5.

Date: Perhaps first half of the third century . (lettering, spelling, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: '15 minutes east of Aphrodisias' (Kubitschek)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Translation

- - - ? in the sarcophagus there have been (or shall be) buried the owner ?and his wife and Apphion] his [daughter] and Marcus Aurelius Menandros, son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras who was fourth of the name from Menandros, the husband of Apphion; [but] no one else shall have the right to bury anyone in the sarcophagus or to remove the afore-named [or to alienate the tomb on the strength of either a civic decree] or of a Roman official's intervention, since whoever acts contrary to these provisions is to be (considered) [sacrilegious and] accursed and a tomb-breaker, and is to pay to the most sacred treasury (at Rome) six [thousand] silver denarii [of which] one third is to belong to the prosecutor.

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