<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble column sarcophagus, with five standing figures within arcaded embrasures (2.19 x 0.92 x 0.98): a central male figure flanked by two muses on either side. For full description see bibliography.

Description of Text

Inscribed a. along the upper edge (which is worn and damaged), and b. on either side of the head of the central figure.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.01-0.015.

Date

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

Edition διι λ ηυμων ον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ου Ἑρμο κρά τους μηνὸς Κλαυδιήου
Apparatus

b presumably follows from the end of a, suggesting that the patronymic of the stephanephorus was Hermokrates.

Translation

not usefully translatable

Commentary

Elements of a funerary formula, ending with the month Claudieus.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: excavated in a chamber tomb Unknown Museum (1994)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus 432)

Bibliography

Sarcophagus published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Sarcophagus 7

Photographs

Figure (1994)

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