Description: Marble sarcophagus, with secondary sarcophagus lid: w: 2.27 × h: 1.03 × d: 1.04. The sarcophagus is decorated on all four sides; on the long sides garlands in three swags with bunches of grapes hanging from them; the swags are supported by a pair of bulls’ heads (back) and a pair of Herakles hip-herms (front); on the short sides single swags carrying a decorative motif above: on the left side a shield, on the right a flower; at the corners of all four sides horned rams’ heads.
Text: Inscribed above and within the central swag on the front,; the text will have started on the original lid, now lost.
Letters: 0.02
Date: Third century CE (material context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-east area
Original location: Necropolis, South-east area
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: ΕΘΑΨΑΙ
2: ΕΣΤ corrected from ΕΣΘ || ΠΟΣΑΠΟΤΙΣΙ
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis and Smith, 2016
No other person will have the authorization to bury someone or to exhume someone of the aforementioned persons, because whoever acts contrary to this will be impious and a tomb-robber and, in addition to this, he will pay to the most sacred treasury 20,000 of silver, one third of which will belong to the prosecutor.
Bibliography
Transcription: Aphrodisias Museum team, in a rescue excavation in 2001/2002, New York University expedition I 02-24, Sarcophagus 479
Publication: Smith and Ratté, 2008 p.742 and fig. 30 Chaniotis and Smith, 2016 1, whence SEG 66.1157, AE xxx, BE xxx
Images
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