Description: Piece from the moulding of a sarcophagus lid (w: 0.14 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.17).
Text: Inscribed on two planes.
Letters: Standard second to third forms; line 1, 0.025, line 2, 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
2: Σ̣ could be Ε.
Translation
. . .] to the most sacred treasury [ . . . in the burial-niches ] be buried [ . . .
Commentary
From a funerary text. Supplements are suggested based on the basis of standard formulae. They must give the approximate sense if not the exact words. line 1 comes from the arrangement for use of money taken in a fine for misuse of the main burial place; line 2 indicates that the tomb was a complex one calling for a second account of who might be placed in subsidiary burial places.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.99)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)