Description of Monument

Large white marble block without moulding 1.90 × 0.87 × 0.42 from a built tomb.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the exposed face in different hands; at least one text (a), began on a block above. Beside this, text b, to the right, is perhaps a casual graffito. To the left of a and b is inscribed text c, in an area which is damaged at the left side.

Letters

a: 0.08 b: cursive, 0.05; ll. 1-2, 0.025, l.3, 0.02.

Date

a. perhaps late first century B.C. or early Julio-Claudian; b. undateable; c. perhaps Julio-Claudian (lettering).

Edition

Translation

a: farewell. c: Menodotos, son of Alexandros farewell

Commentary

I take the first word in l. 3 to be probably a second name for ?Menodotos; its first letter is lost, the second has a horizontal on the base line, but is almost certainly not Δ: e.g. Ἀσιος vel. sim. The traces do not accord with any of the epithets which commonly appear in this position in epitaphs - e.g. ἀώρος, χρῆστος; and in any case these would normally be in the vocative.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): built into the eastern stretch, a little south of the modern entrance to the site Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 165).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1992)

Texts a and b (1992)

Text c (1992)