Description of Monument

Two fragments, not adjoining, of a white marble sarcophagus, undecorated except for a wide tabella ansata, which is inscribed. a.: fragment from the upper part of the tabella, cut down for re-use, with upper moulding but no other sides suviving (0.275 × 0.26 × 0.105). b. lower part of the sarcophagus (1.89 × 0.40 × 0.69). The sarcophagus was re-used in a fountain, so the face is worn.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.025

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἐν τῇ σορῷ κεκήδευται Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Καλς οὐετρανὸς ἀπὸ λεγιῶνος πρώτης Παρθικῆς Σεβηριανῆς Ἀντωνι νιανῆς ἥτις λεγιών ἐστιν ἐν Σινγάροις τῆς Μεσοποταμίας πρὸς τῷ Τίγρει ποταμῷ

Translation

In this sarcophagus is buried Marcus Aurelius Kal[ .... ]s, veteran of the First Parthian legion Severiana Antoniniana, which legion is at Singara in Mesopotamia by the river Tigris.

Commentary

See Speidel and Reynolds, op. cit.

Locations

Unknown City, Village: b. re-used in a fountain in the centre of the village; a. found in the debris of village buildings in 1977. a. Museum (1973); b. findspot (1978).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

b. copied by K. G. Anthopoulos, in 1872; by Choisy, in 1875; by Paris and Holleaux; by K&R (no notebook reference); recorded by the MAMA expedition. a. and b. recorded by the NYU expedition (a. catalogued as 77.153).

Bibliography

b published by Anthopoulos, Homeros 2, 1874, 38; by Perrot, from Choisy, RA 32, 1876, 39-40, no. 5; by Paris & Holleaux, BCH 9, 1885, 81-82, no. 12, whence 9477; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 522; a and b published by Speidel & Reynolds, ' A veteran of legio I Parthica from Carian Aphrodisias', 5, 1985, 31-35, whence SEG 1985.1084, BE 1988.883, AnnEpig 1985.800, McCabe 453

Photographs

Part a. (1973)

Part b. (1978)