Description: Upper part of a white marble sarcophagus front, broken on all other sides: w: 0.30 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.105. In the centre, a tabula ansata supported on either side by flying erotes.

Text: Inscribed on the upper edge (line 1) and within the tabula; the text must have begun on the lid.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.03

Date: Second-third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: North aisle, north-west.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

: . . . ] or may wish his son, Chrysogonos; but no one else will have authority to bury anyone or to exhume (any) of those written above, since the person who does anything contrary to this will pay to the Treasury ?5000 denarii of silver [? . . .

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