Description of Monument

On a white marble garland sarcophagus; for furthr description see Isik 120.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper rim, on an erased surface. The photograph suggests the possibility of further letters cut on the tabella, also on an erased surface.

Letters

Distinct from Aphrodisian norms, crude in design, cutting and alignment; lunate sigma, epsilon, near-cursive delta.

Date

The inscription is certainly secondary, cut markedly later than the original production of the sarcophagus; perhaps fourth century, but there is no secure evidence.

Edition δοναίου Ἀφροδισέος

Apparatus

The text has been partly read by Reynolds from the photograph, but more could probably be read from the stone.

Presumably final -ος for -ως.

Translation

- - -]donaios (?), Aphrodisian

Commentary

This is probably from the name of the owner. If the second word is a name in the nominative case (but this is normally spelt Aphrodisios) the preceding name in the genitive case should be part of his genealogy; more probably it is in the genitive case and misspelt for Ἀφροδισιέως, genitive of the ethnic. It is not common to use an ethnic in an inscription set up in the city to which it refers, but it does occur.

Locations

Unknown Unknown Unknown

Text Constituted From

Read from a photograph by Reynolds.

History of Recording

Recorded by F. Isik; not seen by Reynolds.

Bibliography

Reynolds and Isik 120