Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.303. Funerary for [---] ?son of [Aure(?)]lius

Description: Upper left corner of a sarcophagus front (0.325 0.27 0.24) with moulding a seated lion above.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1970

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1970)

Interpretive

ἡ σορὸς καὶ ἰσ[ώστη? --- Αὐρη?-]
λίου ΕΡ̣Α̣ΤΤ̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΙΣ[....---....-]
ΛΙΟΥΕ..Τ.[---]
[------]

Apparatus

1: there was perhaps a reference to the εἰσωσται (ἰσωσται) but one would have expected the article before it; the opening of the owner's name in the genitive case ended the line, and the beginning of line 2 suggests that he was a Roman citizen and, given the likely date, with the nomen Aurelius (though this cannot be certain).

Translation

The sarcophagus and the burial [places are the property of [Aure?]lius Erat[---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.560)

Publication: IAph2007 15.303.

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