Citation
Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 334. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92719>
Description
Local Name: Aphrodisias, South Necropolis
Local Information: Field 1123, South ** 1/2 Tobacco, 1/4 Wheat, 1/4 Fallow
Latitude: 37.42.12.337
Longitude: 28.43.26.203
Elevation: 515.17m
Dimensions: D: 0.96 m; visible H: 0.36 m; p. W: 1.54 m
Description: Bottom of sarcophagus preserving the left short side to entire depth and the front to more than half its width; only lower portions of decoration are preserved. Overturned on top of the field wall by the road. ** The front of the sarcophagus preserves (from left to right) the lower drapery of a Nike figure standing on an uncarved plinth, a grape cluster, two leaves of an acanthus plinth and one foot of an abraded Eros figure, the lower molded edge of a tabula, and a second acanthus leaf plinth. On the left short side, from left to right: an unfinished plinth of a corner supporting figure, the bottom tip of a grape cluster, and the lower drapery of a Nike standing on a plinth. Both front and short sides have beveled socle molding; the back is plain.