Description:
White marble fragment from the moulded edge of a sarcophagus (W. 0.50 × H. 0.20 × D. 0.28).
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters:
0.01 and 0.02-0.0225. Ligtures: ΤΗ l. 4
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, North-west: north facing stretch, a little north of the standing stretch, on the inner (south) face.
Original Location:
Unknown: presumably Necropolis, North
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition
Bibliography:
: Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 596, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 557
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Publication This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 o[···]ΕΙ̣Σ̣Ε[···]
2[··· εἰς τ]ὰς [εἰσ]ώστας ἐντ[αφῆναι ···]
3[··· συνχωρήσ]η ἐν[γ]ράφως ἕτερος [δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ···]
4[··· προστ]είμῳ τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς τ[αύτης ἀπετέθη ···]
5[ἐπὶ στεφαν]ηφόρου τὸ β´ Τίτου [···]
6[·· c. 4 ··] vac.
1O[···]Ε··Ε[···]
2[·······]ΑΣ[···]ΩΣΤΑΣΕΝΤ[······ ···]
3[···········]ΗΕΝ[·]ΡΑΦΩΣΕΤΕΡΟΣ[·······················]
4[········]ΕΙΜΩΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΤ[····· ··········]
5[·········]ΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟΒΤΙΤΟΥ[···]
6[····]   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
o
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
Ε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΣ
</unclear>
Ε
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
εἰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ὰς
<supplied reason="lost" >
εἰσ
</supplied>
ώστας
ἐντ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αφῆναι
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
συνχωρήσ
</supplied>
η
ἐν
<supplied reason="lost" >
γ
</supplied>
ράφως
ἕτερος
<supplied reason="lost" >
δὲ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
οὐδεὶς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἕξει
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐξουσίαν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
προστ
</supplied>
είμῳ
τῆς
ἐπιγραφῆς
τ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αύτης
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀπετέθη
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
στεφαν
</supplied>
ηφόρου
τὸ
<num value="2" >
β
</num>
Τίτου
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1975)
 Face (1975)

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