Description:
White marble column sarcophagus, with five standing figures within arcaded embrasures (W. 2.19 x H. 0.92 x D. 0.98): a central male figure flanked by two muses on either side. For full description see bibliography.
Text:
Inscribed a. along the upper edge (which is worn and damaged), and b. on either side of the head of the central figure.
Letters:
Standard forms; c. 0.01-0.015.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: excavated in a chamber tomb
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1994)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus 432)
Bibliography:
Sarcophagus published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Sarcophagus 7
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· c. 28 ··] Δ̣Ι̣Ι̣ [·· c. 6 ··] Λ̣ [···] Η̣Υ̣Μ̣Ω̣Ν̣ [·· ? ··]ΟΝ ἐ̣πὶ σ̣τε[φ]ανη[φόρου ·· ? ··] Ο̣Υ̣ [·Ἑ]ρ̣μ̣ο̣[··]-
1 κρά head τους
2 μηνὸς head Κλαυδι
3ήου
1[····························]···[······]·[···]·····[ - - - ]ΟΝ·ΠΙ·ΤΕ[·]ΑΝΗ[····· - - - ]··[··]···[··]
1ΚΡΑ head ΤΟΥΣ
2ΜΗΝΟΣ head ΚΛΑΥΔΙ
3ΗΟΥ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="28" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
διι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ηυμων
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ον
</orig>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
πὶ
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
τε
<supplied reason="lost" >
φ
</supplied>
ανη
<supplied reason="lost" >
φόρου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ου
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρμο
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="1" type="worddiv" />
κρά
<g type="head" />
τους
<lb n="2" />
μηνὸς
<g type="head" />
Κλαυδι
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ήου
</ab>

Apparatus

b presumably follows from the end of a, suggesting that the patronymic of the stephanephorus was Hermokrates.

Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Elements of a funerary formula, ending with the month Claudieus.

Photographs:

Figure (1994)
 Figure (1994)

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