12.802. Honours for female stephanephorus
- Description:
- White marble base, weathered (W. 0.25 × H. 0.75), possibly broken away above, damaged down left side, slightly moulded down right side.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the exposed face
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.04.
- Date:
- First century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-west: re-used, upside down, built into the south-western stretch, a little west of 12.705 (=Walls 7)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by K&R. Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 8).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]-
- 1τ̣ους τὴν στεφανη-
- 2 vac. φόρον vac.
- 2a vacat
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1·ΟΥΣΤΗΝΣΤΕΦΑΝΗ
- 2 ΦΟΡΟΝ
- 2a vacat
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στεφανη
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Apparatus
l. 1, ΟΥΣ is presumably the end of her patronymic or her husband's name.
Translation:
...] the (female) stephanephorus.
Commentary:
Possibly funerary but it seems more likely to be honorary.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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- Face close (1973)
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Representations:
- Reichel notebook I, 36
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