Description:
White marble block, partly buried and broken at right side (W. 0.85 x H. c. 0.66 visible x D. c. 0.22).
Text:
Inscribed in one line across on one face, whose surface is lost to left.
Letters:
Probably standard forms; 0.04; lunate sigma.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, South-east: re-used a little south of the East Gate.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 128.
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ·· τ]οῖς κληρονόμοις Αὐρηλίο[υ ·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ·]ΟΙΣΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΟΙΣΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
οῖς
κληρονόμοις
Αὐρηλίο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

It is not clear whether there was ever text above and/or below the line that survives.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to the heirs of Aurelius [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Heirs are not often named in funerary texts, and normally in the nominative or genitive case; but funerary inscriptions are not invariably drafted in standard formulae, so that one which used the dative is entirely acceptable.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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