<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> formula fragment, II-III cent.

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Piece of moulding probably from the bottom of a sarcophagus front (0.20 × 0.12 × 0.12).

Description of Text

Inscribed on a concave surface.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.015-0.02

Date

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

Edition ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐπεὶ ὁ τούτων τι ποιήσας ἔσται ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος
Apparatus

The supplements offer standard formulae which give the sense, if not necessarily the precise wording, of the text.

Translation

No-one else shall have the right to bury in it or to remove a body from it since anyone who does so shall be considered sacrilegious and accursed and a tomb breaker and shall pay

Commentary

No useful comment

Locations

Stray in 1972 Unknown Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.198)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)

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