<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment for <gap reason="lost"/> and wife

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble fragmen, moulded above, with with upper and lower edges surviving (0.23 × 0.20 × 0.12).

Description of Text

Inscribed on upper fascia of moulding (l.1) and on face below (ll.2-3).

Letters

Standard forms; l. 1, 0.018; ll. 2-3, 0.02.

Date

Perhaps late second century A.D (lettering)

Edition τι καὶ μέλι μοὶ κείμενον τὸν γυναικὶ καὶ τέκνοις
Apparatus

l. 2, Ν cut over Σ.

Translation

See commentary

Commentary

In line 1 the purpose of the stops is unclear; if they mark breaks between sentences we have the end of one of which too little survivies for interprettion, and the whole of another which should mean 'and it is a care for me'; but if they are decorative only we could read τί at the beginning, and translate 'and why does it (should it) trouble me', in accord with funerary texts which urge that life is to be enjoyed and death is not upsetting.

Line 2 possibly refers to the male owner of the tomb, and line 3 to his provision of it for a wife and children.

Locations

Stray Museum (1980) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.22)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1980)