Latin <rs type="textType">funerary</rs> inscription

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble ossuary (0.565 × 0.33 × 0.34), the front partly lost; reliefs of rams' heads, joined by a swag, on the front face, and blanks for the same on the sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed below the swag on the front face, and presumably also within it, unless the text began on the lost lid.

Letters

Latin capitals; 0.02; simple stops on either side of figure

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (lettering, style of decoration).

Edition speculator legionis III Gallicae

Apparatus

MAMA printed an initial L above the opening letter. This is presumably an interpretation of a mark just above the surviving ram's head, on the left; there is nothing on the stone immediately above the surviving line.

Translation

Scout of the third legion Gallicae.

Commentary

The rather naive style of the relief suggests the same time-period as the lettering (so Natalie de Chaisemartin).

Locations

Unknown South Agora, Agora Gate: found during demolition of a village house, re-used in the wall Museum (1983)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (83.66).

Bibliography

Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 558, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 502

Photographs

Face (1983)