Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.271. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment of a white marble panel or sarcophagus front, back surviving but without edges (w: 0.215 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.05).

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: 0.027; beta with open lower bowl.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

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[c. 11]+ Ἀπο[λλώνιος?]
[c. 9]διάδο[χος αὐτοῦ?]
[καὶ οὓς ἂν] αὐτὸς β[ουληθῇ]
[τῆς ἐπιγρα]φῆς ἀντ̣[ίγραφον]
5[ἀπετέθη εἰ]ς τὸ χρε̣[οφυλάκιον]
[ἐπὶ στεφαν]η̣φό̣[ρου τοῦ δεῖνος]
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Diplomatic

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[···········]·ΑΠΟ[.......]
[·········]ΔΙΑΔΟ[........]
[........]ΑΥΤΟΣΒ[......]
[.........]ΦΗΣΑΝ.[.......]
5[.........]ΣΤΟΧΡ.[.........]
[.........].Φ.[............]
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Apparatus

2: or διάδο[χοι] .

Translation

...] ?Apollonios [... and ... his] heir [and theose whom he wishes.] A copy of the inscribed text [was deposited in] the archive [in the year of the] stephanephorus [... month? ...].

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition63.442

Publication: IAph2007 15.271.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)