<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Aimilia Meltine wife of Alexandros

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Large sarcophagus lid (1.05 × 0.62 × 0.65).

Description of Text

l. 1 inscribed along the rim of the lid; l. 2 on the surviving projection.

Description of Letters

Not measured.

Date

.I-IV (lettering)

Edition ἡ σορός ἐστὶν Αἰμιλίας Μελτίνης τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου το ζῆ
Apparatus

l. 1, the last two surviving letters may be from the article τοῦ or the first two of a patronymic.

l. 2, the Ζ is cut on a projection such as commonly features on sarcophagus lids, and will have been completed on a second projection.

Translation

The sarcophagus belongs to Aimilia Meltine wife of Alexandros son of

She lives.

Commentary

Neither of the persons are otherwise known.

Locations

in a well in the centre of Karaçasu in 1925; not rediscovered. All inscriptions found in Karaçasu may reasonably be taken to have originated in Aphrodisias Unknown cemetery Findspot (1927).

History of Recording

Recorded by A. Salač in 1925; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by A. Salač, BCH 51, 1927, p. 396, no. 22, whence SEG 4.400, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 414.

Text Constituted From

Publications.

Photographs

Face (Salač 1927)