12.321. Funerary inscription for Theseus
- Description:
- White marble fragment probably from the upper left corner of a panel or sarcophagus front ( W. c. 0.74 x H. c. 0.19 x depth not measurable)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the exposed face.
- Letters:
- 0.018-0.02
- Date:
- ?Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- 'Havouz (bassin), place du marché' (Gaudin); Walls, East (south part), built into a wall by the entrance to the school (NYU)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek (III, 59); by Gaudin (121); by the NYU expedition in 1975.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 271-272, no. 166, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 537 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebook; publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 vac. τοῦ πλάτα καταβαινόντων τὰ ΕΝ [···]
- 2 τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος σὺν ταῖς ἰσώσταις ἐστὶν[···]
- 3 Θησέως καὶ κληρονόμων αὐτοῦ κα[?τὰ τὴν (e.g.) γενομένην]
- 4 α̣ὐτῷ συνχώρησιν διὰ τοῦ χρε[οφυλακίου ···]
- 1 ΤΟΥΠΛΑΤΑΚΑΤΑΒΑΙΝΟΝΤΩΝΤΑΕΝ[···]
- 2ΤΟΗΜΙΣΥΜΕΡΟΣΣΥΝΤΑΙΣΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΣΕΣΤΙΝ[···]
- 3ΘΗΣΕΩΣΚΑΙΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΩΝΑΥΤΟΥΚΑ[·· ··················]
- 4·ΥΤΩΣΥΝΧΩΡΗΣΙΝΔΙΑΤΟΥΧΡΕ[········· ···]
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extent="3"
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τοῦ
πλάτα
καταβαινόντων
τὰ
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
εν
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
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n="2"
/>
τὸ
ἥμισυ
μέρος
σὺν
ταῖς
ἰσώσταις
ἐστὶν
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Θησέως
καὶ
κληρονόμων
αὐτοῦ
κα
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
τὰ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὴν
<note>
e.g.
</note>
γενομένην
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
ὐτῷ
συνχώρησιν
διὰ
τοῦ
χρε
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
οφυλακίου
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
Apparatus
l. 1, ἐν[?δέξια] Reinach
l. 2, ἐστὶ[ν] Reinach
l. 3, γενομένην, Reinach's conjecture, might be δοθεῖσαν
l. 4, [α]ὐτῷ Reinach
Translation:
Of the platform of ?those descending [·· ? ··] the half part, with the burial niches is [the property of . . . ] of Theseus and his heirs [ . . . .] to him permission through the property-archive [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No commentary
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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- Face (1975)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, 59
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