Description:
Large sarcophagus lid (W. 1.05 × H. 0.62 × D. 0.65).
Text:
l. 1 inscribed along the rim of the lid; l. 2 on the surviving projection.
Letters:
Not measured.
Date:
.I-IV (lettering)
Findspot:
in a well in the centre of Karaçasu in 1925; not rediscovered. All inscriptions found in Karaçasu may reasonably be taken to have originated in Aphrodisias
Original Location:
Unknown cemetery
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1927)
History of discovery:
Recorded by A. Salač in 1925; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by A. Salač, BCH 51, 1927, p. 396, no. 22, whence SEG 4.400, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 414.
Text constituted from:
Publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ἡ σορός ἐστὶν Αἰμιλίας Μελτίνης τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου ΤΟ[·· ? ··]
2 vacat ζ vacat [ῆ vacat ]
1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΑΙΜΙΛΙΑΣΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΣΤΗΣΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟ[ - - - ]
2                    Ζ                    [· ····················]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
σορός
ἐστὶν
Αἰμιλίας
Μελτίνης
τῆς
Ἀλεξάνδρου
<orig n="unresolved" >
το
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<space extent="20" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ζ
<space extent="20" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="20" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, the last two surviving letters may be from the article το[ῦ] or the first two of a patronymic.

l. 2, the Ζ is cut on a projection such as commonly features on sarcophagus lids, and will have been completed on a second projection.

Translation:

The sarcophagus belongs to Aimilia Meltine (wife) of Alexandros son of [·· ? ··]

She lives.

Commentary:

Neither of the persons are otherwise known.

Photographs:

Face (Salač 1927)
 Face (Salač 1927)

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