Description: Fragment of lower moulding from a sarcophagus lid (w: 0.25 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.18).
Text: Inscribed on two planes.
Letters: 0.022
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1970
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Translation
[---] tomb-breaker [---] of the prosecutor [---]
Commentary
For an example of this kind of formula in a funerary text, see index s.v. τυμβωρύχος, ἐκδικέω.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.227)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)