Description: Piece of moulding probably from the bottom of a sarcophagus front (w: 0.20 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.12).
Text: Inscribed on a concave surface.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.015-0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1972
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
The supplements offer standard formulae which give the sense, if not necessarily the precise wording, of the text.
Translation
[No-one else] shall have the right [to bury in it or to remove a body from it since anyone who does so shall be considered sacrilegious] and accursed [and a tomb breaker and shall pay ---]
Commentary
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Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.198)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)