12.303. Funerary fragment

Description:
Large white marble block without moulding W. 1.90 × H. 0.87 × D. 0.42 from a built tomb.
Text:
Inscribed on the exposed face in different hands; at least one text (a), began on a block above. Beside this, text b, to the right, is perhaps a casual graffito. To the left of a and b is inscribed text c, in an area which is damaged at the left side.
Letters:
a: 0.08 b: cursive, c. 0.05; ll. 1-2, 0.025, l.3, 0.02.
Date:
a. perhaps late first century B.C. or early Julio-Claudian; b. undateable; c. perhaps Julio-Claudian (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): built into the eastern stretch, a little south of the modern entrance to the site
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 165).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
a
0[···]
1 χαῖρε
b
1 ΑΙ̣Ι̣ vac.
c
1[?Μη]νόδοτος
2[Ἀ]λ̣εξάνδρου
3[·]ιος χαῖρε
a
0[···]
1ΧΑΙΡΕ
b
1Α··   
c
1[··]ΝΟΔΟΤΟΣ
2[·]·ΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
3[·]ΙΟΣΧΑΙΡΕ
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="1" />
χαῖρε
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιι
</unclear>
</orig>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Μη
</supplied>
νόδοτος
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
εξάνδρου
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
ιος
χαῖρε
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a: [·· ? ··] farewell. c: Menodotos, son of Alexandros [·· ? ··] farewell

Commentary:

I take the first word in l. 3 to be probably a second name for ?Menodotos; its first letter is lost, the second has a horizontal on the base line, but is almost certainly not Δ: e.g. Ἀσιος vel. sim. The traces do not accord with any of the epithets which commonly appear in this position in epitaphs - e.g. ἀώρος, χρῆστος; and in any case these would normally be in the vocative.

Photographs:

Face (1992)
 Face (1992)
Texts a and b (1992)
 Texts a and b (1992)
Text c (1992)
 Text c (1992)

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