<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Two fragments of a white marble sarcophagus front, very worn. a. Left side fragment 0.31 × 0.40 × 0.09; b. Fragment without edges 0.45 × 0.36 × 0.09.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Standard forms: 0.02 (a), 0.022 (b). Ligature: ΤΗ, b. l.3.

Date

First to third centuries A.D. (lettering).

Edition
ταῦτα τα ολοσε ηλι απ
παρακεχωρ ἐν ᾗ σορῷ κεκήδευται λη ευαιδεητηλ ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι λησ καὶ ἐπάρατος εκτωσνσε
Translation

No useful translation possible.

Commentary

Elements from a funerary prohibition; mentions of sarcophagus, of having authority to bury.

Locations

under other stones in the field store east of the Theatre Unknown Findspot (1990)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Theatre 27).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

a (1990)
b (1990)