Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.162. Funerary fragment

Description: Piece from the lower edge of a white marble sarcophagus (w: 0.65 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.45).

Text: Inscribed on the face and on the flat lower moulding.

Letters: Standard second to third centuries C.E. forms; 0.025.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

Interpretive

[---]Ι̣ΚΗΣΙ̣[---]
[---]δ̣ιακομίσαι ἢ συ̣[---]
[--- τρόπον] ἐφευρέσθαι πονηρὸν ᾧ [ἐξαλλιοτρίωθῆ? ---]
[--- τ]υμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτει[σάτω ---]

Diplomatic

[---].ΚΗΣ.[---]
[---].ΙΑΚΟΜΙΣΑΙΗΣ.[---]
[---......]ΕΦΕΥΡΕΣΘΑΙΠΟΝΗΡΟΝΩ[.............---]
[---.]ΥΜΒΩΡΥΧΟΣΚΑΙΑΠΟΤΕΙ[....---]

Translation

[---] move or [---] find an evil [way] by which ?to alienate . . . . shall be deemed ] a tomb-robber and is to pay [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 94.b

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)