Description of Monument

Part of a white marble sarcophagus front from which the decorative relief and the face of the central tabella have been chiselled away (0.52 × 0.49 × 0.14). For further description see Isik 200.

Description of Text

Inscribed along the upper edge (ll. 1, 2) and (l. 3) above the tabella, whose surface has been erased.

Letters

In a distinctive style and intentionally uneven in height (presumably in imitation of hand-written letters); 0.02-0.025; cursive sigma, omega.

Date

Perhaps third century A.D. (lettering, nomenclature, monument ).

Edition ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ τόπος καθ'ος ἐπικεῖται ἐστι Σωφρονίου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ τοῦ κα

Apparatus

l. 1 appears to give the beginning of the text (although the monument clearly extended some way to the left); I have therefore assumed that we also have the beginning of l. 2 immediately below that of l.1. It is unlikely that l. 3, cut on the upper moulding of the tabella, extended leftwards of that moulding

Translation

The sarcophagus and the place in which [it stands belongs to ?Marcus Aurelius] Sophronios, son of Artem[idoros son of .. ? .. ] son of Ka[...]

Commentary

While it may be that we should restore the names Marcus Aurelius before Sophronios, that can be no more than a guess. The father's name may be Artemidoros, at Aphrodisias the commonest of the derivatives from Artermis; Artemon is also possible.

Locations

Unknown Unknown Museum (1978)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 8)

Bibliography

Reynolds and Isik 200 with photograph.

Photographs

Face (1978)