Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.252. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the upper edge of a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.65 × h: 0.31 × d: 0.20).

Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding, and on the top moulding of the central panel.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.025

Date: Third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village, in a pile of stones

Original location: Unknown, presumably Necropolis

Last recorded location: Museum (1980)

Interpretive

[---]Υ ὁ πάππος αὐτοῦ καὶ Μ̣[---]
[---]Αὐ( vac. 1)ρ(ηλία) Κωμικὴ Ἑρμείου ἡ μ[ητὴρ αὐτοῦ ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΥΟΠΑΠΠΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙ.[---]
[---]ΑΥ  ΡΚΩΜΙΚΗΕΡΜΕΙΟΥΗΜ[.........---]

Translation

[---] his grandfather and M[--- and] Aur(elia) Komike (daughter of) Hermeios, his m[other ---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Village 12

Publication: IAph2007 15.252.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)