gems, Imperial sarcophagus, Nymphaeum, Kemalpaşa, Izmir, Western Asia Minor, Middle Byzantine period, Late Byzantine period, Byzantine sarcophagi, Byzantine relief sculpture, Byzantine epigraphy, Byzantine history, Nicaean Empire

In this brief paper, a marble slab fragment from Izmir in western Turkey is presented. Originally, its description was published by Ch. Texier in 1844 and later deemed missing. We believe that it is an imperial sarcophagus and that it may belong to the emperor of Nicaea, Theodore II Laskaris.