Description:
A fragment, ? from a white marble sarcophagus front, very worn (H. 0.55 x W. 0.90).
Text:
Inscribed on the face of the sarcophagus; there are designs—a circle and what looks like a shovel, below.
Letters:
Standard forms, 0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, Village: the Old Mosque
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1893)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (K III.37); not reported subsequently
Bibliography:
Published from K's notebookx by Cormack, no. 20, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 573 .
Text constituted from:
Notebooks; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [···]Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣ [··]ΑΣΡΓ̣[···]
2[···]ΤΛ̣Ι̣Ξ̣ΛΥΟΤΛ[···]
3[···]Ο ἀντίγρ̣α̣φο[ν ···]
4[···]Κλ(αυδίου) Διογένους Με[- ···]
5[···]        vacat [···]
5a (Below, two designs, one vertical, one circular.)
1[···]···[··]ΑΣΡ·[···]
2[···]Τ···ΛΥΟΤΛ[···]
3[···]ΟΑΝΤΙΓ··ΦΟ[· ···]
4[···]ΚΛΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΜΕ[····]
5[···]       vacat [···]
5a(Below, two designs, one vertical, one circular.)
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΙΟ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
ΑΣΡ
<unclear reason="damage" >
Γ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
Τ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΛΙΞ
</unclear>
ΛΥΟΤΛ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
Ο
<unclear reason="undefined" >
</unclear>
ντίγ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρα
</unclear>
φο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αυδίου
</supplied>
</expan>
Διογένους
Με
<supplied reason="lost" >
-
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="horizontal" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5a" />
<note>
Below, two designs, one vertical, one circular.
</note>
</ab>

Translation:

A reference to the copy, and to Claudius Diogenes, perhaps the stephanephoros.

Commentary:
no comment.
Photographs:
none.

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