Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.318. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus. Copied from an incomplete squeeze; not seen in 1980. No edges evident (0.52 0.17)

Text: Inscribed above (lines 1-2) and below a moulding

Letters: Standard forms; 0.015

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1979/80

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[...]
[...]Ο̣ [.]Ι̣Α̣Ι̣Ι̣Κ̣Μ̣Α̣Υ̣Ι̣[..]Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣[...]
[...]ΤΟΥ κειμένη εἰς ΤΟ [.]ΝΠ[...]
[... Ζή]νωνος καὶ Ζήνων [...]
5[... Πο]λ̣υ̣χ̣[ρ]ο̣νιος Τ[...]
[...]

Diplomatic

[···]
[···].[·].........[··]...[···]
[···]ΤΟΥΚΕΙΜΕΝΗΕΙΣΤΟ[·]ΝΠ[···]
[···..]ΝΩΝΟΣΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝ[···]
5[···..]...[.].ΝΙΟΣΤ[···]
[···]

Translation

No useful translation possible

Commentary

Elements of a funerary formula, with names - Zenon, twice, and Polychronios

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Recorded by the NYU expedition ( Museum 56)

Publication: IAph2007 15.318.

Images

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