Description: Part of a white marble sarcophagus front from which the decorative relief and the face of the central tabella have been chiselled away (w: 0.52 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.14). For further description see Işık 200.

Text: Inscribed along the upper edge (lines 1, 2) and (l. 3) above the tabella, whose surface has been erased. Line 1 appears to give the beginning of the text (although the monument clearly extended some way to the left); we therefore assume that we also have the beginning of line 2 immediately below that of line 1. It is unlikely that line 3, cut on the upper moulding of the tabella, extended leftwards of that moulding

Letters: In a distinctive style and intentionally uneven in height (presumably in imitation of hand-written letters); 0.02-0.025; cursive sigma, omega.

Date: Perhaps third century CE (lettering, nomenclature, monument)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 2007

The sarcophagus and the place in which [it stands belongs to ?Marcus Aurelius] Sophronios, son of Artem[idoros son of .. ? .. ] son of Ka[...]

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