Description:
Fragment of a panel with moulded lower edge and back surviving (W. 0.19 × H. 0.15 × D. 0.04).
Text:
Inscribed on face and on moulding (l. 4).
Letters:
l.2, 0.025, l.3, 0.025-0.03, l.4, 0.02; guidelines visible; rho with a tail.
Date:
First century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: MAB 4, Str. 1
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Found by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.158).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ··]Ο̣Σ̣[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ·· ?Μενάν]δρου τ[οῦ ·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ·· τ]οῦ Μαρσ̣[ύου ·· ? ··]
4[·· ? ·· τ]οῦ Παπίο[υ ·· ? ··]
0·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]··[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ·····]ΔΡΟΥΤ[·· - - - ]
3[ - - - ·]ΟΥΜΑΡ·[··· - - - ]
4[ - - - ·]ΟΥΠΑΠΙΟ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
οσ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Μενάν
</supplied>
δρου
τ
<supplied reason="lost" >
οῦ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
οῦ
Μαρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ύου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
οῦ
Παπίο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

... ?of Menan]dros [...] son of Marsyas [...] son of Papias [...]

Commentary:

Presumably a genealogy; cf. (unpublished) for family.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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