<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment from Portico East of Theatre

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Piece from a white marble sarcophagus front 0.57 × 0.412 × 0.17 figuring arcades enclosing figures of which the upper part of one survives complete, with two in fragmentary form on either side.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper lip (a) and around the arcades (b ).

Letters

Standard forms; 0.02

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition
ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔστε τοῦ ἐκδικησαντος
ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔστε τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος
Apparatus

a: ἔστε for ἔσται. There seems no doubt of the erro in the last surviving word, although the photograph may suggest that there was an attempt to insert the missing letter.

Translation

.a: . . . ] of which the third part will belong to the prosecutor [ . . .]

.b: . . . ] of which the third part will belong [to the prosecutor . . .]

Commentary

The formula is in standard use for funerary texts; that it appears twice should mean use for two different users. It is also unusual to cut this part of the funerary text on the arcades.

Locations

Tetrastoon: Portico East of Theatre, on the surface. Museum (1978) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.23)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1978)