Description:
White marble sarcophagus lid (W. 0.94 x H. 0.24 x depth not measurable) inscribed on the moulding; the text must have begun on an upper area.Sarcophagus lid
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Necropolis, West: re-used in south face of the field wall on the south side of the road from Aphrodisias to New Geyre, just west of the West gate
Original Location:
Last recorded location:
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 588, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 519
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [···]
2[··· ἔσ]ται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ἐν̣ [δὲ] ταῖς εἰσ̣[ώσταις ···]
3[···]βουληθῶσιν Παυλεῖνός τε καὶ Διον[ύσιος ···]
4[··· τῆς ]ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφο[ν ···]
1[···]
2[·····]ΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕ·[··]ΤΑΙΣΕΙ·[······ ···]
3[···]ΒΟΥΛΗΘΩΣΙΝΠΑΥΛΕΙΝΟΣΤΕΚΑΙΔΙΟΝ[········]
4[······]ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟ[· ···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἔσ
</supplied>
ται
τοῦ
ἐκδικήσαντος
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
δὲ
</supplied>
ταῖς
εἰ
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ώσταις
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
βουληθῶσιν
Παυλεῖνός
τε
καὶ
Διον
<supplied reason="lost" >
ύσιος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῆς
</supplied>
ἐπιγραφῆς
ἀπετέθη
ἀντίγραφο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The MAMA edition presents the text as if the stone were complete on the left; but this is not necessarily so.

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
No commentary yet (2007).

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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