Description of Monument

Part of the front of a white marble garlands sarcophagus 0.99 × 0.49 × 0.15; for description see Isik 175.

Description of Text

Inscribed in the tabella (die 0.27 x 0.25) from which an earlier inscription has been erased; ll. 1-3 on the upper moulding, ll 4 ff. impinging on the side mouldings.

Letters

poorly designed, cut and aligned, 0.02; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; very poorly cut; there may have been erasure in ll.8-10; non-standard spelling in l.2.

Date

Perhaps first half of the third century (lettering, nomenclature).

Edition ἡ σορός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ τόπος καὶ αἱ ὑποκιμέναι ἰσώsic σται Μάρκου Καρμινίου Ἰάσονος τοῦ Ἀγαθίνου τοῦ καὶ Εὐστοχίου καὶ Στατιλίας Διογενίης τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ

Translation

The sarcophagus [and the] plot (on which it stands) belong to Marcus Carminius Jason son of Agathinos also called Eustochios, and Statilia Diogenia his wife [ - - -

Commentary

The poor quality of the letters, and the use by the owners of a sarcophagus which was apparently secondhand, suggest a family of modest means and status. Since the known Carminii were a great family of Aphrodisias and its neighbour Attouda, achieving Roman senatorial status in the second century (c.f. also on no. 6), and the wife's nomen indicates another family with Roman citizen status before the Edict of Caracalla in A.D. 212, it is reasonable to guess that these were, or were descended from, dependants of great families (perhaps freed slaves). Their property consisted of more than the sarcophagus but the text sets out no provisions for the proper use of any of it. There cannot have been space for these on the tabella.

Locations

stray before 1966 Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 107)

Bibliography

Reynolds and Isik 175.

Photographs

[[ 66.1.86. Isik]]