Description: Piece from the lower moulding of a marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.31 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.19).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Line 1, 0.22; line 2, 0.027
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1974
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
Translation
[--- into the] most sacred treasury [---] the tomb [---]
Commentary
Funerary, line 1 probably from the instructions for payment of a fine for misuse of the tomb.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1974 (74.84)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)