11.42. Funerary fragment, re-used in Mosque
- Description:
- Fragment of white marble panel from a sarcophagus front, very worn (H. 0.55, W. 0.90), with a rebate on three edges. There is a relief of a circular object in the centre below the text and a vertical object to its left.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. The drawing suggests that there may have been a scroll to the left of l. 4.
- Letters:
- Not described, but drawn as capitals 0.02. Standard second to third century forms.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- City, Village: re-used in the area of the Mosque
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1893)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel (K iii.37), whence Cormack; not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Kubitschek's copy by Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964), 20, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 573 .
- Text constituted from:
- Notebooks; publication. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣ [··]ΑΣΡΓ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]ΤΛ̣Ι̣Ξ̣ΛΥΟΤΛ[·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ··τ]ὸ ἀ̣ντίγρ̣α̣φο[ν ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλακιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου]
- 4[·· ? ··] [Τι]β̣(εριου) Κλ(αυδίου) Διογένους μη̣[νι ·· ? ··]
- 4a[·· ? ··] vacat [·· ? ··]
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]···[··]ΑΣΡ·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]Τ···ΛΥΟΤΛ[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ·]Ο·ΝΤΙΓ··ΦΟ[········································]
- 4[ - - - ][··]·ΚΛΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΜ·[·· - - - ]
- 4a[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
<ab>
</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"
>
</orig>
ιιο
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ασρ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
γ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
τ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λιξ
</unclear>
λυοτλ
</orig>
<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>
ὸ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἀ
</unclear>
ντίγ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρα
</unclear>
φο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀπετέθη
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
χρεοφυλακιον
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
στεφανηφόρου
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Τι
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</abbr>
β
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
εριου
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αυδίου
</supplied>
Διογένους
μ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
η
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
νι
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="12"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the copy [of the inscription was deposited in the property-archive in the staphanephorate] of Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Diogenes, ?month [of·· ? ··]
Commentary:
ll. 1, 2 seem beyond interpretation.
ll. 3, 4 can be restored with high probability as from a penal formula (so already Cormack). We offer a standard wording, but there is some variety in texts without real differences in meaning.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, 37
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