Description: White marble sarcophagus lid (w: 0.94 × h: 0.24 x depth not measurable) inscribed on the moulding; the text must have begun on an upper area.Sarcophagus lid
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.025
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, West area: re-used in south face of the field wall on the south side of the road from Aphrodisias to New Geyre, just west of the West gate
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1976)
Apparatus
The MAMA edition presents the text as if the stone were complete on the left; but this is not clear.
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1976
Publication: MAMA 8 588 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 519 ; IAph2007 13.615.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)