Description of Monument

White marble block from a composite funerary monument, broken at both ends (0.36, 1.01, 1.30). Moulded back and front.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the front on two fasciae: l. 1 above moulding, ll. 2-4 below.

Letters

Standard forms, 0.03. Ligatures: ΜΝ (l.1) ΜΜ (l.2), ΜΗ (l.3, twice).

Date

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

Edition ου καθ′οὗ ἐπικεῖται τόπου τὸ μνῆμα διὰ του σορῷ γεγραμμένα ἐξώλης εἶναι καὶ αὐτὸς αν μήτε γυναῖκας τίκτειν κατὰ φύσιν μήτε πιη δὲ πᾶν γένος αὐτοῦ βωμῶν τε ἱερῶν

Translation

the place on which the memorial lies through [ . . . ] written [on the] sarcophagus to be destroyed, both himself nor women to give birth naturally nor [ . . . all his race and [from] sacred altars

Commentary

Elements from a particularly extensive funerary curse.

Locations

Walls, South-west: reused upside down, and partly buried at the west end of the south wall. Unknown Findspot (1975)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 120); Lines 2-4 copied in 1975, line 1 in 1976.

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Lines 2-4 (1975)

Lines 2-4 (1975)