<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment from Bishop's Palace

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

 English French German Ancient Greek Transliterated Greek Modern Greek Italian Latin Spanish Turkish AsiaTurkeyAphrodisiasGeyre 2007-02-28Charlotte TupmanDONE2007-02-20Charlotte Tupmanhand tidiedGBhand tidied 2005-12-13Elliott HallBatch converted Word2XML
Description of Monument

Corner fragment of an elaborately moulded feature, probably a sarcophagus front (0.115 × 0.29 × 0.09).

Description of Text

Inscribed on two adjacent faces.

Letters

a: ll. 1, 5f., 0.015; ll. 2-4, 0.02; lunate sigma in l.1. b: l.1, 0.02; l.2, 0.022; l.3, 0.028; ll.4-5, 0.025.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition
ποσ ωτο νοσ ινοη καὶ υ αὐτοῦ τινα νκαὶ τυμβωρύχος τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος υπαλου
αρι θά ψαι ωσ κα σαι
Apparatus

a. l. 4, ΗΚ in ligature

a. l. 5, αὐτοῦ CMR, ΑΥΤΟΙΩ JMR

a. l. 10, ΙΟΥ JMR

Translation

Nothing translatable.

Commentary

a. includes elements from a funerary penalty formula; cf. index s.v. ἐκδικέω and τυμβώρυχος.

Locations

Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: S.W. 'Bishop's Palace' I, Stratum 1. Unknown Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1967 (67.193).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Fragment a. (1977)
Fragment a. (1977)
Fragment b. (1977)
Fragment b. (1977)