Description:
White marble fragment of a sarcophagus (W. 1.15 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.45) with a bust in relief.
Text:
Inscribed to the right of the bust.
Letters:
0.03
Date:
probably 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:
Copied by Waddington; by K&R (no notebook entry); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Sarcophagus catalogue 237)
Bibliography:
Published by Waddington, LBW 1648, whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 556, no. 430, Kaibel 429, Grégoire, Rec. 279, Cabrol, Dict. vol. 14, col. 796, no. 24; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 601, whence Peek, GVAK 28, no. 12, SEG 30, 1256, BE 1982:359, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 400 , Steinepigramme 02/09/93.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [·· c. 19 ·· ψυχὴ γὰρ]
2[σώματος οὐκέτι νῦν ἀλ]ύτο[ις]
3 vac. δεσμοῖσι κρατεῖται
4 εἰς αἰῶνα μένουσα πάλαι
5 vac. τὸν λυσιμέριμνον
1[··························]
2[··················]ΥΤΟ[··]
3   ΔΕΣΜΟΙΣΙΚΡΑΤΕΙΤΑΙ
4ΕΙΣΑΙΩΝΑΜΕΝΟΥΣΑΠΑΛΑΙ
5   ΤΟΝΛΥΣΙΜΕΡΙΜΝΟΝ
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<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="19" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ψυχὴ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
γὰρ
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σώματος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
οὐκέτι
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
νῦν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀλ
</supplied>
ύτο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ις
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
δεσμοῖσι
κρατεῖται
<lb n="4" />
εἰς
αἰῶνα
μένουσα
πάλαι
<lb n="5" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
τὸν
λυσιμέριμνον
</ab>

Apparatus

The supplements are suggested by Peek.

l. 1, MAMA conjectured καμάτων ἀλ]ύτο[ις]

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).

Commentary:

A funerary inscription in hexameters

The contents may be Christian (as assumed by earlier editors) but the lettering is not later than the third century

Photographs:

View (1981)
 View (1981)
Detail (1981)
 Detail (1981)

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