15.341. Funerary inscription for [Marcus Aurelius] Sophronios, son of Artem[idoros]

Description:
Part of a white marble sarcophagus front from which the decorative relief and the face of the central tabella have been chiselled away (W. 0.52 × H. 0.49 × D. 0.14). For further description see Isik 200.
Text:
Inscribed along the upper edge (ll. 1, 2) and (l. 3) above the tabella, whose surface has been erased.
Letters:
In a distinctive style and intentionally uneven in height (presumably in imitation of hand-written letters); 0.02-0.025; cursive sigma, omega.
Date:
Perhaps third century A.D. (lettering, nomenclature, monument ).
Findspot:
Unknown
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 8)
Bibliography:
Reynolds and Isik 200 with photograph.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ τόπος καθ'ος [ἐπικεῖται ἐστι ·· c. 8 ··]
2 Σωφρονίου τοῦ Ἀρτεμ̣[ιδώρου [?τοῦ ·· c. 10 ··]
3 vac. τοῦ ΚΑ [···]
1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΟΤΟΠΟΣΚΑΘ'ΟΣ[······················]
2ΣΩΦΡΟΝΙΟΥΤΟΥΑΡΤΕ·[······[··· ··········]
3   ΤΟΥΚΑ[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἡ
σορὸς
καὶ
ὁ
τόπος
καθ'
ος
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐπικεῖται
ἐστι
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="8" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
Σωφρονίου
τοῦ
Ἀρτε
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ιδώρου
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
τοῦ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
τοῦ
<orig n="unresolved" >
κα
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1 appears to give the beginning of the text (although the monument clearly extended some way to the left); I have therefore assumed that we also have the beginning of l. 2 immediately below that of l.1. It is unlikely that l. 3, cut on the upper moulding of the tabella, extended leftwards of that moulding

Translation:

The sarcophagus and the place in which [it stands belongs to ?Marcus Aurelius] Sophronios, son of Artem[idoros son of .. ? .. ] son of Ka[...]

Commentary:

While it may be that we should restore the names Marcus Aurelius before Sophronios, that can be no more than a guess. The father's name may be Artemidoros, at Aphrodisias the commonest of the derivatives from Artermis; Artemon is also possible.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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