Description:
Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus, broken above and below (H. 0.17 × W. 0.65 × D. 0.37), with a tabella ansata in light relief on the front.
Text:
Inscribed within the tabella.
Letters:
Lunate; 0.015-0.03.
Date:
Fourth century or later (terminology)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: in a modern stable building near the west end of the complex.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81.143, renumbered as 88.15).
Bibliography:
Roueché, Aphrodisias 168, and plate xxxix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 749.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 ἔνβασεις
2 Κυριακοῦ
3 πρεσβυτέρου.
1ΕΝΒΑΣΕΙΣ
2ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΥ
3ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΥ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἔνβασεις
<lb n="2" />
Κυριακοῦ
<lb n="3" />
πρεσβυτέρου
.
</ab>

Translation:

Coffin of Kyriakos, priest.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IX.38.

Photographs:

Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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