Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.335. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the front of a white marble sarcophagus (w: 0.34 × h: 0.56 × d: 0.14).

Text: Inscribed along the upper rim and within a moulded panel of which the upper left corner survives.

Letters: perhaps third century; 0.025 - 0.035; square sigma.

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Trench 14.1, southeast quadrant, topsoil

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

ἡ σορός [---]
θυγατρὸ[ς --- Πολυχρο?-]
νίου [--- Πολυ-]
χρονίου̣ [---]
5 ΣΙΜ [---]
( vac. )

Diplomatic

ΗΣΟΡΟΣ[---]
ΘΥΓΑΤΡΟ[.---.......-]
ΝΙΟΥ[---....-]
ΧΡΟΝΙΟ.[---]
5ΣΙΜ[---]
      

Apparatus

1: - ]Ε̣ΟΘΟΠ̣Λ̣[- Chaniotis, 2024
3-4: Supplements Chaniotis, 2024
3: νίου [- IAph2007
4: χονίου̣ [- IAph2007

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

The tomb [...] daughter [...of Polychro]nios [... of Poly]chronios [...]

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

The tomb [...] daughter [... -]nios [... -]chonios [...]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1986 (no findspot or inventory number), and again in 2014, I.14.11

Publication: IAph2007 15.335; Chaniotis, 2024 47.

Images

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