Description: A white marble sarcophagus lid (w: 1.90 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.87). Beside it is the sarcophagus, broken and badly damaged, with columns at the corners; the tabella ansata has been erased.
Text: Inscribed on the upper rim (l. 1) on two pendants (line 2) and on lower rim (line 3); the state of the surface suggests that lines 1 and 3 were cut over an earlier, erased, text.
Letters: Line2, well cut, 0.065; lines 1 & 3, irregular, ave. 0.03.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South area: in a small Turkish graveyard due south of the central section of the southern city walls.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1994)
Apparatus
1: πλατός is generally taken to be used as an equivalent of πλατάς, a platform for a tomb.
2: clearly misinscribed for ζῶσιν.
3: the text was presumably completed on the chest of the sarcophagus.
Translation
i. The sarcophagus and the surrounding platform belongs to Publia Calvisia Peritiane, the grandaughter of Iulianos; she also [---]
ii. They live.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 17
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)