Description: Pedimental sarcophagus lid with akroteria, w: 2.05 × h: 0.39 × d: 0.87. The front corner akroteria are carved with a sleeping Eros at right, a reclining female at left; the front of the roof has six sets of pan- and cover tiles, two of which end in the corner akroteria, the others in lions’ heads at the edge of the roof; both ends have a recessed tympanon with a winged Gorgoneion head. The sarcophagus survives, uninscribed.
Text: Inscribed in one line across the front.
Letters: 0.02-0.04
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-east area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004
This sarcophagus and the place, on which [it is laid?] belongs to Marcus Aurelius Eisidoros, son of Eisidoros, son of Kastor, curio (herald, messenger) of the tribe . . .
French translation
Translation source: AE
Le sarcophage et l'emplacement sur lequel il est posé appartiennent M. Aurelius Isidoros, fils d'Isidoros, (petit-fils) de Castor, curio de la tribu [?].
Bibliography
Transcription: Aphrodisias Museum team 1999/2000, whence New York University expedition I 00.009, Sarcophagus 465
Publication: Smith and Ratté, 2004 176 no.1 (description); Chaniotis, 2004 25, whence SEG 54.1058, AE 2004.1457
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