Description: White marble garland sarcophagus with lid; for full description see Işık 118.

Text: i. a. inscribed on the lid, (length 2.09); i. b on the tabella, impinging on the moulding (w: 0.29 × h: 0.41), line 1 on upper moulding, lines 17-18 on lower moulding; i. c on the projections. On one of the vertical projections an earlier text has been erased and ii has been added..]

Letters: i. a fair version of the second-to-fourth-century style, a: 0.020; b: 0.015; c: 0.025; ii. roughly cut and aligned, with cursive forms, 0.015-0.02. Unconventional spellings in i a, line 1, ii, lines 1, 3.

Date: For i. perhaps the first half of the third century; ii. presumably relates to a secondary use at a later date. (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Ata Eymir : in a tomb

Original location: Ata Eymir: in a tomb

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

Translation

i.a: The sarcophagus and the burial places below it in the base of the monument belong to Marcus Aurelius Epinikos son of Epinikos the son of Mousaios. In this sarcophagus Epinikos and Aurelia Zenonis, daughter of Adrastos the son of Apollonios the son of Demetrius, his wife, will be buried and Epinikos third of the name after Musaios, their son, and Aurelius Claudius Epinikos the son and [---]theus their grandson.

b: No one else will have the right to bury anyone in the sarcophagus nor to remove a body from it; for anyone who undertakes anything contrary to what is written above is to be (scil. considered) sacrilegious and accursed and a tomb-breaker and [is to pay ? ------]]

c: They are alive

ii: This sarcophagus also belongs to Antoninos and [------]

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