<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Unpublished inscription.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 left side of a white marble columnar sarcophagus front (0.305 × 0.40 × 0.43). On what survives of the left short end part of a draped female figure is visible beside a column at the corner.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the lower part of the front face, above a carved lower edge; there are traces of sculptured decoration above.

Letters

standard forms, Second to third centuries A.D.; 0.02

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ὃς ἂν πα ρὰ ταῦτα ἀποτει σάτω θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ ΓΩ ΤΟΥ βουλή θη ἢ διατάξηται
Apparatus

l. 3, Γ might be Τ

Translation

[ . . .? whover acts] incrtavention of this let him pay to the god[dess Aphrodite . . .] whatver he may wish or instruct [ . . .

Commentary

Fragmetns from a standard funerary formula; perhaps from the same monument as 13.128.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: stray find Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.36; sarcophagus 211)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face and left side (1992)
Face (1992)