Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.331. Funerary fragment

Description: Badly damaged right end of a white marble garland sarcophagus, showing part of a garland upheld at the corner by a pillar and a kneeling putto, who probably upheld a central tabella to the left. For further description see Işık 95.

Text: Inscribed on the face to the left of the putto and below the tabella. The inscription probably began in the tabella.

Letters: Well-designed and cut, in the second-to-fourth-century style.

Date: Perhaps first half of the third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[... ?]Α̣ΤΙΑΧ̣ΟΥ

Diplomatic

[···].ΤΙΑ.ΟΥ

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

No translation possible

Commentary

If as seems probable this comes from the end of the text, it should be from the date, perhaps from the name of the stephanephoros, although I know no name with this ending.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Recorded by Işık.

Publication: Reynolds, 2007 95, with photograph , whence SEG 57.1015; IAph2007 15.331.

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