Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.317. Funerary inscription for Dionysios

Description: Fragment from the top of a white marble panel, perhaps sarcophagus front (0.24 0.165 0.07) with moulded upper edge surviving.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Lines 1-2, 0.02, lines 3-4, 0.018

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[--- Δι]ονύσιος Διο[νυσίου ---]
[--- Μάρκο]υ Αὐρηλίο[υ ---]
[--- οὐδεὶς] ἕ̣ξει ἐξ[ουσίαν ---]
[--- π]οιήσ̣[ας ἔσται ἀσεβὴς ---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---..]ΟΝΥΣΙΟΣΔΙΟ[......---]
[---.....]ΥΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ[.---]
[---......].ΞΕΙΕΞ[......---]
[---.]ΟΙΗ.[.............---]
[------]

Translation

Mentions of Dionysios ?son of Dionysios; of [ Marc]us Aurelius [-]; of funerary prohibition

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1979 Museum 52

Publication: IAph2007 15.317.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds, 1982)