168. Epitaph of Cyriacus, priest

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History

Description

Monument: Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus, broken above and below (0.17 × 0.65 × 0.37), with a tabella ansata in light relief on the front.
Text: Inscribed within the tabella.
Letters: Lunate; 0.015-0.03.
Date: Fourth century or later.

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	ἔνβασεις
	Κυριακοῦ
	πρεσβυτέρου.

Translation

Coffin of Cyriacus, priest.

Photographs

Face (1983)

Commentary

See discussion at IX.38.

Locations

Found: Sebasteion: in a modern stable building near the west end of the complex.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81. 143, renumbered as 88.15).
Bibliography: Roueché, Aphrodisias 168, and plate xxxix, whence PHI 749.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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