Description: White marble sarcophagus body: w: 2.50 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.95. On the front, Nikai on either end hold garlands, while Erotes support a tabula ansata; there are two unfinished busts in the lunettes above the garland swags (a man on the left, a woman on the right).

Text: Inscribed twice: A, a text which must have started on the lid, survives on the upper moulding of the tabula ansata (line 1) and within the tabula; B on top left, in the space between the bust and the garland.

Letters: 0.025-0.03

Date: A: early Severan; B mid third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, stray.

Original location: Findspot

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024

(A): . . . no one else shall have authorization] to either bury or remove anyone, because he shall pay as a fine to the most sacred treasury 10,000 denarii, one third of which shall belong to the vindicator.

(B): Of Achilleus Dromax (“the dromedary”), chief secretary.

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