Description: White marble fragment from the lower right corner of a tabella ansata (w: 0.23 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.16); probably a sarcophagus front.
Text: Inscribed on the face (lines 1, 2) and on moulding.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1981)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
.. . ] wisdom (or) philosophy [ . . . as is ] shown [ . . . ] child [? . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Museum 62
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)