Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.8. Funerary fragment

Description: White marble fragment without edges from a sarcophagus front.

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face

Letters: Standard second to third centuries C.E. forms.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Old Museum, stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Ν̣Ε[---]
[--- οὔ]τε ἐνθά[ψαι ---]
[---]Ι̣Ω οὔτε Λ̣[---]
[--- πο]ι̣ήσας ἔσται [ἀσεβὴς ---]
5[--- Ἀφρο]δείτῃ ἀργ̣[υρίου ---]
[--- πε]ντακοσ[ι---]
[---]ΥΛΙ̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---][---]
[---..]ΤΕΕΝΘΑ[...---]
[---].ΩΟΥΤΕ.[---]
[---..].ΗΣΑΣΕΣΤΑΙ[......---]
5[---....]ΔΕΙΤΗΑΡ.[.....---]
[---..]ΝΤΑΚΟΣ[.---]
[---]ΥΛ.[---]
[------]

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

No useful translation possible: fragments from prohibition of burial, a curse on anyone who does so, and a penalty - payable in silver - to Aphrodite.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Museum 33

Publication: IAph2007 15.8.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)