Description of Monument

Three joining fragments of a white marble sarcophagus front, which was fluted, with a central tabella ansata, flanked on either side by a smoother area with curving outlines.

Description of Text

i, which is cut on the simple flat moulding along the top of the tabella, must have begun on an upper feature, and must represent all that remains of a previous inscription, erased from the tabella. ii is cut on the tabella and beyond it on the right.

Description of Letters

i, standard 2nd-3rd century lettering, 0.02; ii, in a rough cursive hand, letters 0.02-0.03.

Date

i: Second/third century (lettering); ii: Third/fourth century (formulae, penalty).

Edition ται αὐτὴ ἢ τοιιαινη καὶ ἡ σορός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ὑποκείμενος τόποςΑὐρηλίας Διονυσίας Στεφάνου, ἐν ᾗ εἴ τις ἕτερος βουληθείη ἐνθάψαι δώσει προστέμου ονολταυι τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς Ἀφροδείτης χρύσου οὐνκίας δύο.

Apparatus

The left end fragment of the block was found in 1989, adding about one letter at the beginning of each line to the text published in .

ii, l.1. The final sigma of ὑποκείμενον is written as epsilon.

The end of l.3 and the beginning of l.4 are very uncertain.

Translation b. The coffin and the place beneath it are the property of Aurelia Dionysia, daughter of Stephanus, in which coffin if anyone else should wish to bury anyone he will give (?) of a penalty to the shrine of Aphrodite two ounces of gold.

Commentary

See discussion at IX.7; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, see IX.5.

Found

No provenance: found in the Museum.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition; main pieces before 1980, the third fragment in 1989.

Bibliography

Two fragments published by Roueché, no. 148 a and b whence 575, 436.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Left end fragment (1989)

Centre fragment (1981)

Right end fragment (1983)

Category of Text

funerary.

Category of Monument

sarcophagus.