Fragment of <rs type="textType">funerary</rs> formula, stray find, undated.

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Fragment of lower moulding from a sarcophagus lid (0.25 × 0.12 × 0.18).

Description of Text

Inscribed on two planes.

Letters

0.022

Date

Third century A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτεισάτω ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐγδικήσαντος
Translation

tomb-breaker of the prosecutor

Commentary

For an example of this kind of formula in a funerary text, see index s.v. τυμβωρύχος, ἐκδικέω.

Locations

stray in 1970 Museum (1977) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.227)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)