Description of Monument
A white marble sarcophagus (H. 0.30, W. 1.80) from which
part of the front and of the lower sides has been carefully removed.
It seems likely, but not certain, that this second inscription should
be associated with the cutting away of the front, although it is
difficult to envisage how the stone was then used - perhaps to support
a coffin?
Description of Text
a, not published here, a standard funerary text of the
second century surviving in two lines of the lower part of the
inscribed tabella ansata, and in one line on the lower moulding.
b, published here, was cut along the upper edge of the back of the
sarcophagus.
Description of Letters
Standard forms, except for cursive omega and
sigma.
Date
Late third/early fourth century (titulature).
Edition
ἐνθάδε κεῖτε Βικτωρεῖνος ἀπὸ πρωτηκτόρων ἔπαρχος
βεκούλων.Translation
Here lies Victorinus, former protector, praefectus vehiculorum.
Commentary
See discussion at IX.12, and
for the phrasing, IX.39.
Found
Tetrapylon: in the Byzantine cemetery.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
On site.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1984.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity no 152 and plate xxxv, whence PHI 516.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Category of Text
funerary.
Category of Monument
sarcophagus.