Description:
White marble sarcophagus lid (W. 2.09 × H. 0.40 × D. 0.84)
Text:
Inscribed along the rim.
Letters:
0.0175 - 0.0225
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: lying just north of the Kara硳u/Tabai road, east of the turn to Aphrodisias.
Original Location:
Unknown; probably the necropolis of Aphrodisias
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.1); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition
Bibliography:
MAMA 8, no. 563, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 462
Text constituted from:
Publication; notebook; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [·· c. 12 ··]ΑΣ̣ ἐστιν Μά̣ρ̣(κου) Α̣ὐρ(ηλίου) Τατιανοῦ τοῦ Παπίου τοῦ Μενεσθέως τοῦ Δε[ξ]ίππου τοῦ Μενίππου vac.
1[············]Α·ΕΣΤΙΝΜ···ΥΡΤΑΤΙΑΝΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΠΙΟΥΤΟΥΜΕΝΕΣΘΕΩΣΤΟΥΔΕ[·]ΙΠΠΟΥΤΟΥΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥ   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
</orig>
ἐστιν
<expan>
<abbr>
Μ
<unclear reason="damage" >
άρ
</unclear>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
κου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
Α
</unclear>
ὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
</expan>
Τατιανοῦ
τοῦ
Παπίου
τοῦ
Μενεσθέως
τοῦ
Δε
<supplied reason="lost" >
ξ
</supplied>
ίππου
τοῦ
Μενίππου
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

... ἐ]στιν MAMA. They also saw further traces at the end of the text, in an area which appears to us to be blank

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook V, 1
 Kubitschek notebook V, 1

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