Description: Fragment from the lower edge of a sarcophagus, with right edge apparently surviving (w: 0.42 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.37).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.017
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1979
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
Translation
[---] sacrilegious and accursed [---] and grave-robbers [---]
Commentary
l. 1 is from the funerary curse upon those who disturb the tomb; line 2 is not from any of the standard formulae. Could there be a use of ἀνόσιοι to those cursed?
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.14)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)