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Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Lower part of a broken white marble sarcophagus (1.53 × 0.62 × 0.84).

Description of Text

Inscribed in an area much damaged

Letters

Poorly cut; 0.02-0.25; lunate epsilon, sigma

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ψν ἰδιω κου ἐνταφήσεται Μελτίνη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ θαψε τοὺς ακτοεματουσ αὐτοῦ ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει να οὔτε εἰς τὴν σορὸν οὔτε εἰς τὰς ἰσσῶσστας
Translation

Meltine his daughter will be buried [ . . .] to bury no-one else will have [ authority to bury anyone] neither in the sarcophagus nor in the burial niches

Commentary

None

Locations

Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb. Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus 435)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1994)
Face (1994)