Description: Two adjoining pieces of the lower part of a white marble sarcophagus, w: 1.13 × h: 0.20 × d: 104, and w: 1.15 × h: 0.24 × d: 1.01; traces of figures above.

Text: Inscribed in four lines on a broad lower border; the text must have begun on an upper feature.

Letters: 0.025

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, West area: with the remains of a monumental tomb in the field south of the road to New Geyre, about 0.25 mile east of New Geyre.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1976)

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[ . . . in the ] sarcophagus has been buried Lucia Antoniane who was brought up with Theophilos; there will be placed in the sarcophagus Theophilos who built the heroon, and Lucia Antonia Aurelia Ariste, (daughter) of Kallias, the daughter of Apphia [. . . .] brought up by Theophilos; no one else will have authority to bury in the sarcophagus or to exhume any of those buried in it.

French translation

Translation source: AE

[--- dans le] sarcophage a été ensevelie Lucia Antoniana, soeur de lait de Théophilos. Seront déposés dans le sarcophage Théophilos, qui a fait construire le monument, et Lucia Antonia Aurelia Aristè, fille de Callias, la fille d'Apphia [---], qui a été élevée par Théophilos ; nul autre n'aura le droit d'être enseveli dans le sarcophage ou d'en exhumer un de ceux qui y auront été ensevelis.

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