Description:
Right side of a white marble ?console (W. 0.28 × H. 0.40 × D. 0.38).
Text:
Inscribed on a panel sunk within a moulded frame, with S shaped motifs in relief at the side.
Letters:
Standard second to third century forms; ave 0.03
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, South-west: A stray find in a field-wall west of the Hadrianic Baths, inside the west wall.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1991)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1990 (90.r)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Ν καὶ
2[·· ? ··]ΜΩΝ
3[·· ? ··]Δ̣ΕΠΕ
4[·· ? ··] δ̣ιὰ ΤΑ
5[·· ? ··]εῖται
6[·· ? ··] ἀρχεῖ -
7[·· ? ··]Σ̣ star
1[ - - - ]ΝΚΑΙ
2[ - - - ]ΜΩΝ
3[ - - - ]·ΕΠΕ
4[ - - - ]·ΙΑΤΑ
5[ - - - ]ΕΙΤΑΙ
6[ - - - ]ΑΡΧΕΙ
7[ - - - ]· star
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ν
</orig>
καὶ
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
μων
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
επε
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
ιὰ
<orig n="unresolved" >
τα
</orig>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
εῖται
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ἀρχεῖ
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
</orig>
<g type="star" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 5, perhaps [κ]εῖται

Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

In line 6, perhaps a reference to deposit in the archeion:

so εἰς τὸ ἀρχεῖον, 11.65 (=MAMA 578), εἰς τὰ ἀρχεῖα, 12.414 (=MAMA 543).

Photographs:

Face (1990)
 Face (1990)
Face and top (1991)
 Face and top (1991)

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