<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Unpublished inscription.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

Fragment from the base of a white marble sarcophagus front (0.44 × 0.43 × 0.21).

Description of Text

Inscribed on three fasciae of moulding.

Letters

Standard forms; ll. 1-5, 0.018; ll.6 ff., 0.02; ligature, ΝΗ (l.4)

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition Μενάνδρου τοῦ ει ὑπὸ Αὐρ. χα τα τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου ? νη ἐνταφησ- ισ ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνθάψας ἀφ′ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἐσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπέτεθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου σιι τὸ β μηνὸς ζ
Translation

Elements from a funerary prohibition; perhaps the name Menandros, and an Aurelius Cha-. reference to burial, to a penalty; to a deposit in the property archive under a stephanephoros, for the second time, whose name is lost, in the 6th month.

Commentary

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Locations

City, North-west: in a field wall north west of the Hadrianic Baths. Unknown Findspot (1988)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (Village 16).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1988)