Description: White marble sarcophagus w: 2.35 × h: 1.00 × d: 1.03 and lid w: 2.385 × h: 0.42 × d: 1.12. Decorated with victories and putti holding garlands, with a bust above each garland. In the centre, a tabella ansata.
Text: Inscribed on the tabella.
Letters: Poorly designed, under the influence of cursive forms, 0.03; lunate epsilon, sigma, cursive omega
Date: Perhaps middle of the third century . (lettering, formulae)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South area: south of the south city wall, a little way east of the area excavated in 1975, south of 8.114
Original location: Necropolis
Last recorded location: Fragments in the Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2007
They are (still) living. This is the sarcophagus, and the memorial monument below it, of Marcus Aurelius Glykon, sculptor, and Alexandros, dealer in paints (and/or unguents).
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 153; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition, broken in the 1990s
Publication: Reinach, 1906 159 , whence Squarciapino, 1943 3 , Robert, Hellenica XI-XII 46-48 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1961.666 ; MAMA 8 574 , whence , Robert, Hellenica XIII 193 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 450 ; Erim and Reynolds, 1989 24 , whence SEG 40.944 ; Reynolds, 2007 137 ; IAph2007 13.406.
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