Description:
Fragment from the top of a white marble?statue base capital (W. 0.19 x H. 0.15 x D. c. 0.11).
Text:
inscribed on a face, with moulding above and below.
Letters:
0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, Water Channel area, in dump of previous excavation.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.220)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ·· ?ἡ γερ]ουσία[·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ····]ΟΥΣΙΑ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
γερ
</supplied>
ουσία
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ·· and the Ger]ousia [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Presumably from the start of a text containing honours bestowed upon an individual by bodies including the Gerousia.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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