13.131. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- White marble column sarcophagus, with five standing figures within arcaded embrasures (W. 2.19 x H. 0.92 x D. 0.98): a central male figure flanked by two muses on either side. For full description see bibliography.
- Text:
- Inscribed a. along the upper edge (which is worn and damaged), and b. on either side of the head of the central figure.
- Letters:
- Standard forms; c. 0.01-0.015.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: excavated in a chamber tomb
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1994)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus 432)
- Bibliography:
- Sarcophagus published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Sarcophagus 7
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· c. 28 ··] Δ̣Ι̣Ι̣ [·· c. 6 ··] Λ̣ [···] Η̣Υ̣Μ̣Ω̣Ν̣ [·· ? ··]ΟΝ ἐ̣πὶ σ̣τε[φ]ανη[φόρου ·· ? ··] Ο̣Υ̣ [·Ἑ]ρ̣μ̣ο̣[··]-
- 1 κρά head τους
- 2 μηνὸς head Κλαυδι
- 3ήου
- 1[····························]···[······]·[···]·····[ - - - ]ΟΝ·ΠΙ·ΤΕ[·]ΑΝΗ[····· - - - ]··[··]···[··]
- 1ΚΡΑ head ΤΟΥΣ
- 2ΜΗΝΟΣ head ΚΛΑΥΔΙ
- 3ΗΟΥ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="28"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
διι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="6"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
λ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ηυμων
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ον
</orig>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἐ
</unclear>
πὶ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
σ
</unclear>
τε
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
φ
</supplied>
ανη
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
φόρου
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ου
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἑ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρμο
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="1"
type="worddiv"
/>
κρά
<g
type="head"
/>
τους
<lb
n="2"
/>
μηνὸς
<g
type="head"
/>
Κλαυδι
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ήου
</ab>
Apparatus
b presumably follows from the end of a, suggesting that the patronymic of the stephanephorus was Hermokrates.
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
Elements of a funerary formula, ending with the month Claudieus.
Photographs:
- Figure (1994)
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