Description of Monument

Fragment of white marble panel from a sarcophagus front, very worn (0.55, 0.90), with a rebate on three edges. There is a relief of a circular object in the centre below the text and a vertical object to its left.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The drawing suggests that there may have been a scroll to the left of l. 4.

Letters

Not described, but drawn as capitals 0.02. Standard second to third century forms.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography).

Edition ιιο ασργ τλιξλυοτλ τὸ ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλακιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Τιβεριου Κλαυδίου Διογένους μηνι

Apparatus

l. 4, the last letter could be Ε, and it is possible that the last two begin a second cognomen (but if so the man is not otherwise known).

Translation

the copy of the inscription was deposited in the property-archive in the staphanephorate of Tiberius Claudius Diogenes, ?month of

Commentary

ll. 1, 2 seem beyond interpretation.

ll. 3, 4 can be restored with high probability as from a penal formula (so already Cormack). We offer a standard wording, but there is some variety in texts without real differences in meaning.

Locations

City, Village: re-used in the area of the Mosque Unknown Findspot (1893)

Text Constituted From

Notebooks; publication.

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel (K iii.37), whence Cormack; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published from Kubitschek's copy by Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964), 20, whence McCabe 573 .

Photographs

None.

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 37