Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.308. Sarcophagus fragment

Description: Piece from the top of a marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.16 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.29) .

Text: Inscribed on the face; lines 1-2 on upper moulding.

Letters: 0.023

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]κατὰ Τ[---]
[---]ΑΝΤΑΕ[---]
[---]Κ̣ΟΡΟΙΤ[---]
[--- δια?]τ̣άξητ[αι ---]
5[---] τοὺς [---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---]ΚΑΤΑΤ[---]
[---]ΑΝΤΑΕ[---]
[---].ΟΡΟΙΤ[---]
[---...].ΑΞΗΤ[..---]
5[---]ΤΟΥΣ[---]
[------]

Apparatus

3: Κ could be Χ

Translation

Not usefully translatable.

Commentary

Surely funerary; line 4 probably from a statement of the right of the owner to designate persons for burial in subsidiary tomb-places.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1974 (74.236)

Publication: IAph2007 15.308.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)