Description:
A white marble fragment, apparently of a ?sarcophagus front, (H. 0.78 × W. 0.85 × D. 0.16), broken above and below.
Text:
Inscribed a above and b within a tabella ansata.
Letters:
0.03-0.055; irregular.
Date:
Fourth century or later.
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: 'ostl.(?) von Aphrodisias. Acker des Hadji Ibraham = Weinberg' (Kubitschek).
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1893).
History of discovery:
Copied by Kubitschek, 9 June 1893 (K. III, 16, Abklatsch 83); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack (1964) 19, 9, and fig. 1, whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 38; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 160.a, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 757 and b, whence PHI 739, Steinepigramme 02/09/34.
Text constituted from:
Kubitschek notebook. This edition Roueché (2007).
a
0·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ··]Μ̣Ι̣ΟΙ̣[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··] v. [·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ··] v. [·· ? ··]
4[·· ? ··] ΕΝ εἰκάδι
5[·· ? ·· μ]ηνὸς Σ̣ v.
6[·· ? ··]ΟΝΤΟΣ v.
b
| δυσμενέ|ων ἀπά|νευθε, φί|λων χερ|(5)σὶν ἑταί|ρων cross .
a
0·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]··Ο·[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
3[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
4[ - - - ]ΕΝΕΙΚΑΔΙ
5[ - - - ·]ΗΝΟΣ· 
6[ - - - ]ΟΝΤΟΣ 
b
1ΔΥΣΜΕΝΕ
2ΩΝΑΠΑ
3ΝΕΥΘΕΦΙ
4ΛΩΝΧΕΡ
5ΣΙΝΕΤΑΙ
6ΡΩΝ cross
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
μι
</unclear>
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
εν
</orig>
εἰκάδι
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
μ
</supplied>
ηνὸς
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
οντος
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<lg>
<l >
<lb n="1" />
δυσμενέ
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ων
ἀπά
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
νευθε
,
φί
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
λων
χερ
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
σὶν
ἑταί
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
ρων
<g type="cross" />
.
</l>
</lg>
</div>

Apparatus

a, l.1. Μ might be Α.

There is no indication of how much is missing to either side in ll. 2 ff.

Translation:

a. ·· ? ··] ?on the twentieth of the month ·· ? ··]

b. ·· ? ··] far from enemies, by the hands of dear friends.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IX.24.

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 3, p. 16
 Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 3, p. 16

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