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

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Reynolds and Isik (2007).

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Description of Monument

Part of the front of a white marble garland sarcophagus, broken at either side and below: see Isik 75 for fuller description.

Description of Text

Inscribed along the upper edge (surviving width of inscription, 0.70). In the second line the cutter has had to avoid elements of the decorative relief. The full text muxt have begun on the lid, and finished on the lower moulding.

Letters

0.02, neatly cut

Date

Probably middle third century (lettering, spelling).

Edition ἑτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ ἐκθάψαι ἐπὶ ἀποτείσει ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔστω τοῦ ἐγδικήσαντος
Translation

no-one else shall have the right to bury anyone (in the sarcophagus) or to remove anyone (from it) since (if he does) he will pay of which the third part is to belong to the prosecutor

Commentary

Part of a funerary curse in the standard form.

Locations

Temple/Church: T.Aph. XVI Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962 (62.378)

Bibliography

Published by Isik and Reynolds, no. 75

Photographs

Face (1977)