<rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Tomb</rs> of Chrestianos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Reynolds and Isik (2007).

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Description of Monument

A white marble garland sarcophagus; see Isik for full description.

Description of Text

Inscribed along the central part of the upper rim, apparently with a vacat on either side.

Letters

Fairly rough and unevenly cut, the last four letters damaged, ave. 0.045; lunate sigma.

Date

The sarcophagus could well be markedly earlier than the letters, which are difficult to date, but perhaps of the fourth century A.D. (lettering)

Edition Χρηστιανοῦ
Translation

(Tomb of) Chrestianos(?).

Commentary

The text looks as if it gave an owner's name, added perhaps when the sarcophagus was in secondary use. Names like this which are derived from words with the sense of 'useful' (Χρήσιμος, Χρῆστος) suggest a modest social context.

Locations

Unknown Unknown Museum (1972)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Reynolds and Isik 80

Photographs

Detail (1972)