<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Polykrates

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital

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Description of Monument

White marble fragment from the top of a stele (0.41 × 0.38 × 0.18); above, a relief of a gable with acroteria containing a circular object.

Description of Text

Inscribed on a moulded panel below the relief.

Letters

Neatly cut, unevenly sized; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; small circles for stop before and after the number, l.3; l.1, 0.032-0.035; l.2, 0.03-0.032; l.3, 0.028-0.03; l.4, 0.026-0.028.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ὁ πλάτας ἐστιν Πολυκράτους δ τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου ο

Apparatus

l. 5, Ο may be an arabesque

Translation

The area belongs to Polykrates (son of Polykrates son of Polykrates son of Polykrates) son of Apollonios [...]

Commentary

None

Locations

South Agora, Agora Gate: in house wall S.E. of gate Unknown Museum (1983)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1983 (83.70)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1983)