Description: A white marble fragment, apparently of a sarcophagus front, (w: 0.85 × h: 0.78 × d: 0.16), broken above and below.
Text: Inscribed a above and b within a tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.03-0.055; irregular.
Date: Fourth century or later.
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: 'ostl. von Aphrodisias. Acker des Hadji Ibraham = Weinberg' (Kubitschek).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1893).
Apparatus
a.1: Μ might be Α.
2ff: There is no indication of how much is missing to either side in lines 2 ff.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(a): [------] on the(?) twentieth of the month [------]
(b): [------] far from enemies, by the hands of dear friends.
German translation
Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
(b): Fern von den Feinden, (bestattet) durch die Hände seoner Freunde.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.16, Abklatsch 83
Publication: Cormack, 1964 9, and fig. 1, whence Robert, 1966 38; Roueché, ALA 160.a, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 757, 739 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/34 (b), ALA 2004 160, IAph2007 13.157.
Images
Fig. 1. Kubitschek, notebook III, 16