Description:
Large white marble crowning block moulded on three sides W. 1.59 × H. 0.29 × D. 1.06.
Text:
Inscribed on the front moulding; the text must have continued on the face of the monument which this feature crowned.
Letters:
l.1, 0.028, l.2, 0.025; ligature: ΤΕ, l.1.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, south (east part): in excavation of south wall
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (Walls 147)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); Squeeze in Cambridge, Box 12, 45. This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ἡ σορὸς καὶ αἱ ὑποκείμεναι ἰσῶσται τέσσαρες κα-
2τεσκευασμέναι εἰσὶν ὑπὸ Αὐρηλ[ί- ···]
1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΑΙΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΑΙΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΤΕΣΣΑΡΕΣΚΑ
2ΤΕΣΚΕΥΑΣΜΕΝΑΙΕΙΣΙΝΥΠΟΑΥΡΗΛ[·····]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
σορὸς
καὶ
αἱ
ὑποκείμεναι
ἰσῶσται
τέ
σσαρες
κα
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
τεσκευασμέναι
εἰσὶν
ὑπὸ
Αὐρηλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ί-
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l.2: Αὐρηλ [ίου or -ίας. or possibly ίων.

Translation:

The sarcophagus and the four burial niches lying belowwereprepared by Aurel[ius or Aureiai or just possibly the Aurelii . . . ]

Commentary:

The tomb appears to have comprised a sarcophagus standing on a structure which contained four subsidiary burial-places.

Photographs:

Left end (1983)
 Left end (1983)
Right end (1983)
 Right end (1983)

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