<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Unpublished inscription.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 block with moulding (no measurements).

Description of Text

Inscribed on front face of upper moulding.

Letters

Standard second to third century forms; no measurements

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ὁ πλάτας μενα ανου μενα οδου
Apparatus

l. 1, after Α there is the seriph of an upper cross-bar (Τ, Γ, Ε, Σ)

Translation

The tomb

Commentary

The reference to the tomb begins a formulaic funerary text; the surviving elements below include the name Menandros, and probably other names in a genealogy.

Locations

Unknown Unknown Museum (1992)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.d)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1992)