<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Meltinianos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Plain white marble sarcophagus (no measurements)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.025-0.03

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition εἰς ἣν σορὸν ταφήσομαι ἐγώ τε ὁ Μελτινιανὸς καὶ τὰ γνήσιά μου παιδία εἰ δὲ ἕτερός τις βουληθείη ἐνθάψαι τινά δώσει προστείμου τῇ θεῷ Ἀφροδείτῃ δηνάρια ε
Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

City, Village: reused in a house wall Unknown: necropolis Museum

Text Constituted From

Publication; Preliminary transcription (Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (sarc. catalogue 44)

Bibliography

Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 595, whence BE 1966:413, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 507

Photographs

78.L.35, 80.D.13

Detail (1978)
View (1980)