11.11. Funerary inscription for Menandros
- Description:
- White marble block (W. 0.32 x H. 0.18 x D. ?).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, within a panel (W. 0.25 x H. 0.13).
- Letters:
- 0.008 (l. 5) - 0.017 (ll. 1-4).
- Date:
- first to second centuries A.D. (lettering, phonetics, nomenclature).
- Findspot:
- City, Village: 'reversed in a wall of a Turk's house at ye east end of ye town' (Sherard),' In muro apud Turcam domum in orientali pagi parte' (Picenin)i.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Copied in 1705 by Sherard (f.16v) and by Picenini (10102 20v and, from Tisser, 54v, cf. also 77 ); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2844; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 536, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 508
- Text constituted from:
- Publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ὁ πλάτας ἐστὶν
- 2 Μενάνδρου τρὶς
- 3 τοῦ Ἀρκαθίου Ἑκά-
- 4τωνος Κοΐνθου καὶ
- 5 κληρονόμων αὐτοῦ
- 1ΟΠΛΑΤΑΣΕΣΤΙΝ
- 2ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΡΙΣ
- 3ΤΟΥΑΡΚΑΘΙΟΥΕΚΑ
- 4ΤΩΝΟΣΚΟΙΝΘΟΥΚΑΙ
- 5ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΩΝΑΥΤΟΥ
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ὁ
πλάτας
ἐστὶν
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Μενάνδρου
τρὶς
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τοῦ
Ἀρκαθίου
Ἑκά
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τωνος
Κοΐνθου
καὶ
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κληρονόμων
αὐτοῦ
Apparatus
...
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
- Commentary:
- No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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