Description: White marble garland sarcophagus. See Işık 176 for a full description.
Text: Inscribed on the tabella (0.195 × 0.345) from which a previous inscription has been erased. Line 1 on the upper moulding, lines 2 ff. inscribed within the panel; lines 3-6, 9-12 impinge on the right moulding. Very worn.
Letters: Irregular and poorly formed, 0.01-0.015; cursive alpha, omega and mu used sporadically, square sigma.
Date: Late third/early fourth century (titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
The sarcophagus, and the area surrounding this memorial, is (the property of) M. Aurelius Leontius Auchenios, teacher of friends, and M. Aurelius Papaios Polychronios, steward of Papias, curialis.
English translation
Translation source: reynolds2007
The sarcophagus, and the plot surrounding this memorial, belong to M. Aurelius Leontius Auchenios, teacher of friends, and M. Aurelius Papaeos Polychronios, steward of Papias, curialis.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 48).
Publication: Published Roueché, ALA 151 , whence cited, but with the wrong text, at McCabe, PHI, 1996 454 ; ALA 2004 151; Reynolds, 2007 176 ; IAph2007 15.345.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1978)