<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment, stray and undated

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Fragment from the lower edge of a sarcophagus, with right edge apparently surviving (0.42 × 0.14 × 0.37).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.017

Date

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

Edition ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος και τυμβωρύχοι οσιοις
Translation

sacrilegious and accursed and grave-robbers

Commentary

l. 1 is from the funerary curse upon those who disturb the tomb; l. 2 is not from any of the standard formulae. Could there be a use of ἀνόσιοι to those cursed?

Locations

Stray in 1979 Unknown Museum (1980)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.14)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1980)
Face (1980)