11.36. Funerary inscription
- Description:
- Left side of a broken white marble ?stele or panel with a clamp-hole in the right side (W. 0.55 × H. 0.445 × D. 0.16).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- Standard II-III form; 0.022
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, Village: re-used in a house near the Theatre
- Original Location:
- Unknown: necropolis
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by K&R (RI.37, KIII.4, Abklatsch 28); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (71.42)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 590. whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 552
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; Reichel; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 τὸ σόρι̣[ον] καὶ αἱ ἐν τῷ [σορίῳ εἰσῶσταί εἰσιν ···]
- 2λου ἐληλυθότα εἰς αὐτ̣[···]
- 3 vac.
- 1ΤΟΣΟΡ·[··]ΚΑΙΑΙΕΝΤΩ[·····················]
- 2ΛΟΥΕΛΗΛΥΘΟΤΑΕΙΣΑΥ·[···]
- 3
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
τὸ
σόρ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ον
</supplied>
καὶ
αἱ
ἐν
τῷ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
σορίῳ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰσῶσταί
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰσιν
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
λου
ἐληλυθότα
εἰς
αὐ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Apparatus
l. 1, κ]αὶ MAMA
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
Kubinska (35) relies on this reading to cite σόριον as meaning 'little sarcophagus', citing only two other instances: it is found at Ephesus, IEph. 2204, at Smyrna (ISmyrna 202, plural) and perhaps in the cemetery at Tyre (Nécropole de Tyr, 222.B,1)
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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Representations:
- Reichel notebook I, 37
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- Kubitschek notebook III, 4
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