<rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Funerary</rs> formula from sarcophagus

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Two adjoining pieces from the central and top part of a marble column sarcophagus (together 1.90 × 0.05).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper moulding of the face. The text must have begun on the lost lid, and concluded on the lost lower moulding.

Description of Letters

0.03.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition νους ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἕτερον οὐδένα ἐνθάψαι
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Translation

nes her husband; and no one shall have the right to bury anyone else therein

Commentary

The fragmentary text (containing a standard funerary formula) probably indicates that the sarcophagus was acquired by a woman for herself and her husband, for whom we possibly have the conclusion of the patronymic (from a name such as Διογένης).

Locations

Temple/Church: Tem. III, south end ; tomb EUnknown Museum (1978)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (64.429, 64.430).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Fragment (1978)