i: Elements of a <rs type="textType">funerary</rs> formula; ii: <rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Epitaph</rs> of Biktorinos, <term lang="la">praefectus vehiculorum</term>
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Originally published in Roueché (2004).
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Description of Monument
A white marblesarcophagus (0.30 x 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
i: lines 1-2 on the lower part of the
inscribed Tabella ansata, and in one line on the lower moulding.
ii, 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.
Translationi: [ . . . the copy ] was places in the Property archive when Hypsikles the son of Adrastos Neikotimos Hierax was stephanephoros for the third time, 9th day of the month Gorpieos.ii: Here lies Biktorinos, former protector, praefectus vehiculorum.
Commentary
i: a standard funerary text of the
second century; for the stephanephoros see Name index.
ii: See discussion at IX.12.
Locations
Tetrapylon: in the Byzantine cemetery.Unknown.. 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 McCabePHI Aphrodisias516.