Description: Large sarcophagus lid (w: 1.05 × h: 0.62 × d: 0.65).
Text: line 1 inscribed along the rim of the lid; line 2 on the surviving projection.
Letters: Not measured.
Date: Second-third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Karaçasu: in a well in the centre of the town in 1925.
Original location: Aphrodisias
Last recorded location: Findspot (1925)
Apparatus
1: the last two surviving letters may be from the article το[ῦ] or the first two of a patronymic.
2: The Ζ is cut on a projection such as commonly features on sarcophagus lids, and will have been completed on a second projection.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
The sarcophagus belongs to Aimilia Meltine (scil. wife) of Alexandros son of [---]
She lives.
Bibliography
Transcription: Salač, 1925
Publication: Salač, 1927 22 , whence SEG 4.400 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 414 , IAph2007 14.4.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (from Salač 1927)