12.210. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of a white marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.46 × H. 0.305 × D. 0.11) with, apparently, top edge surviving and perhaps lower edge.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surface of the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Irregular; 0.02 (o) - 0.025-0.028; diairetic dots around first I, l.2; o for stops.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (north part), lying just NE of water channel stretch.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.16, Walls 11).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ·· ?Ζη]νων Ι̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]κ̣οῦ ΦΙΛΟ[·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ·· ?Ἑρ]μ̣ολαος μὲν stop ἰδεῖν · [·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ·· Ζ]ήνων stop ἐπικληθ[·· ? ··]
- 5[·· ? ··]Υ Μοῖραι γὰρ ἐπέκλω̣[σαν ·· ? ··]
- 6[···]ΑΣ v. πάσῃ τε πόλει stop κα[ὶ ·· ? ··]
- 7[·· ? ··] vac. ΟΥ καὶ̣ ἑαυτ[ο·· ? ··]
- 8[·· ? ··] vac. ΠΑ̣ΥΣ̣Α[·· ? ··]
- 9 [?·· ? ··
- 1[ - - - ··]ΝΩΝ·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]·ΟΥΦΙΛΟ[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ··]·ΟΛΑΟΣΜΕΝ stop ΙΔΕΙΝ·[ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ·]ΗΝΩΝ stop ΕΠΙΚΛΗΘ[ - - - ]
- 5[ - - - ]ΥΜΟΙΡΑΙΓΑΡΕΠΕΚΛ·[··· - - - ]
- 6[···]ΑΣ ΠΑΣΗΤΕΠΟΛΕΙ stop ΚΑ[· - - - ]
- 7[ - - - ] ΟΥΚΑ·ΕΑΥΤ[· - - - ]
- 8[ - - - ] Π·Υ·Α[ - - - ]
- 9[?·· ? ··
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dim="left"
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<supplied
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cert="low"
>
Ζη
</supplied>
νων
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
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dim="right"
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<lb
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/>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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<unclear
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>
κ
</unclear>
οῦ
<orig
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>
φιλο
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<gap
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<supplied
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>
Ἑρ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
μ
</unclear>
ολαος
μὲν
<g
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/>
ἰδεῖν
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/>
<gap
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/>
<lb
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/>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
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>
Ζ
</supplied>
ήνων
<g
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/>
ἐπικληθ
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<lb
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<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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<orig
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>
υ
</orig>
Μοῖραι
γὰρ
ἐπέκλ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ω
</unclear>
<supplied
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>
σαν
</supplied>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="6"
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<gap
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extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ασ
</orig>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
πάσῃ
τε
πόλει
<g
type="stop"
/>
κα
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὶ
</supplied>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
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<lb
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<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
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<space
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unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ου
</orig>
κα
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὶ
</unclear>
ἑαυτ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ο
</supplied>
<gap
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extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
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<lb
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<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
π
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
υ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
σ
</unclear>
α
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
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/>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
id="gap17"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 6, ?ΚΑ̣ΒΕ (JMR)
l. 7, ΚΛΩΕ (JMR)
l. 8, ΠΛ̣ΕΥ (JMR)
Translation:
References to a name, to the Fates, to the whole city
Commentary:
Apparently a fragment from a funerary poem, for someone who died young, when the Fates cut short his or her life.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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