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

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block (0.32 x 0.18 x ?).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, within a panel (0.25 x 0.13).

Letters

0.008 (l. 5) - 0.017 (ll. 1-4).

Date

first to second centuries A.D. (lettering, phonetics, nomenclature).

Edition ὁ πλάτας ἐστὶν Μενάνδρου τρὶς τοῦ Ἀρκαθίου Ἑκάτωνος Κοΐνθου καὶ κληρονόμων αὐτοῦ
Apparatus

...

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Unknown City, Village: 'reversed in a wall of a Turk's house at ye east end of ye town' (Sherard),' In muro apud Turcam domum in orientali pagi parte' (Picenin)i. Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Publications.

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Sherard (f.16v) and by Picenini (10102 20v and, from Tisser, 54v, cf. also 77 ); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2844; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 536, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 508

Photographs

Face (1977)