13.307. Funerary fragment

Description:
Right hand side fragment from a white marble sarcophagus (W. 0.42 × H. 0.53 × D. 0.30); no decoration visible.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Standard second to third century forms; ligatures: ΜΜ in l. 1, ΤΗ, l. 5, ΗΜΗ, l. 6.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, South-east: beside second field wall south of path east from South-east Gate.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1976)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 140).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0[·· ? ··]
1[·· c. 54 ·· Ἀ]μ̣μιανὸν
2[·· c. 42 ·· οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερ]ος ἐξουσί-
3[αν ἔξει ·· ? ·· ἐπι]χειρήσας
4[ἕξει ἐνθάψαι [·· c. 35 ··] ὧν τὸ τρί]τον ἔσται
5 [τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον μενεῖ κύρια τὰ ὑπ'ἐμοῦδιατεταγ]μενα τῆς ἐπι-
6[γραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρο]υ τὸ · Φλ. stop Δημη
6a[τρίου μήνος [·· ? ··]] vac.
0[·· ? ··]
1[·······················································]·ΜΙΑΝΟΝ
2[·······················································]ΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙ
3[······ - - - ···]ΧΕΙΡΗΣΑΣ
4[·····················]ΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ
5[·································································]ΜΕΝΑΤΗΣΕΠΙ
6[······ ·····················································]ΥΤΟ·ΦΛ stop ΔΗΜΗ
6a[···········]   
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="54" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
μ
ιανὸν
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="42" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
οὐδεὶς
δὲ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἕτερ
</supplied>
ος
ἐξουσί
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
αν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἔξει
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐπι
</supplied>
χειρήσας
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἕξει
ἐνθάψαι
<gap reason="lost" extent="35" unit="character" precision="circa" />
ὧν
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τρί
</supplied>
τον
ἔσται
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῦ
ἐκδικήσαντος
καὶ
οὐδὲν
ἔλαττον
μενεῖ
κύρια
τὰ
ὑπ
'
ἐμοῦ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
διατεταγ
</supplied>
μενα
τῆ
ς
ἐπι
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
γραφῆς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἀπετέθη
ἀντίγραφον
εἰς
τὸ
χρεοφυλάκιον
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
στεφανηφόρο
</supplied>
υ
τὸ
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
Φλ.
<g type="stop" />
Δημη
<lb n="6a" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τρίου μήνος
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</supplied>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

Supplements embody the sense of the standard formulae, but not necessarily the precise wording used here.

Translation:

. . . ]Ammianos [ . .c. 42 . . and no-one else shall have ] a right [ to bury here . . . c. 35 . . . since whoever] undertakes [ to do so shall pay . . .? . . . of which one third] shall be [for the prosecutor; and none the less shall my instructions remain valid. A copy of the] inscription [was deposited in the Property -archive in the stephanephorate] of Flavius (or Flavia) Deme[trios (or Demetria) month ?]

Commentary:

Neither Ammianos notr the stephanephoros are identifiable at present.

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)
Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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