Description:
Plain white marble sarcophagus (no measurements)
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025-0.03
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, Village: reused in a house wall
Original Location:
Unknown: necropolis
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (sarc. catalogue 44)
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 595, whence BE 1966:413, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 507
Text constituted from:
Publication; Preliminary transcription (Roueché) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [···]
2 εἰς ἣν σορὸν ταφήσομαι ἐγώ τε ὁ Μελ-
3τινιανὸς καὶ τὰ γνήσιά μου παιδία
4 εἰ δὲ ἕτερός τις βουληθείη ἐνθάψαι
5 τινά δώσει προστείμου τῇ θεῷ
6 vac. Ἀφροδείτῃ (δηνάρια) ͵ε
1[···]
2ΕΙΣΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΤΑΦΗΣΟΜΑΙΕΓΩΤΕΟΜΕΛ
3ΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΣΚΑΙΤΑΓΝΗΣΙΑΜΟΥΠΑΙΔΙΑ
4ΕΙΔΕΕΤΕΡΟΣΤΙΣΒΟΥΛΗΘΕΙΗΕΝΘΑΨΑΙ
5ΤΙΝΑΔΩΣΕΙΠΡΟΣΤΕΙΜΟΥΤΗΘΕΩ
6   ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ denarius Ε
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Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Detail (1978)
 Detail (1978)
View (1980)
 View (1980)

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