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Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Fragment of a white marble block, damaged above, to the left and below (0.47 × 0.36 × 0.20).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face within a moulded panel.

Letters

Second to third centuries A.D; 0.02

Date

Second to early third century A.D. (lettering)

Edition σ τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ διὰ ψηφίσματος καὶ μετηλλάκοτα τειμηθῆναι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦδήμου
Apparatus

Something like . . .τειμῆσαι δὲ καὶ τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ may have stood in ll. 1-3

Translation

. . . ] that his] son [be honoured] in a decree also after his death and for him too to be praised by the Council and the People [ . . .

Commentary

This is perhaps part of a decision of the Council that a father as well as his deceased son should be honoured; it probably concluded by urging the father to bear his loss with courage. For the combination of elements cf. 12.704a (=MAMA 512)

Locations

Unknown Temple/Church: 'N.E. Temenos corner, level 1' Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.223)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)