Description:
Right end of a white marble sarcophagus lid broken in two (W. c. 1.30 × H. 0.76 × D. 0.17).
Text:
Inscribed on the moulded edge which is badly worn.
Letters:
c. 0.02. Ligature: ΜΜ, l. 2.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, West: on the s. side of the field wall n. of the road to New Geyre.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1976)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (West Cemetery 5).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [··]Τ̣ΟΥΤΥ[·]ΟΝΟΣ τοῦ Ὑψικ̣λ̣[έους
2[··] ὑπὸ Αὐ vac. ρηλίας Ἀμμίας τὴν̣
3[·· c. 4 ··] vac. περὶ αὐτοῦ ΔΙ̣
4[··· χρ]ε̣ο̣ vac. φυλάκιον ἐ̣π̣ὶ̣ σ̣τ̣ε̣-
4a[φανηφόρου ·· ? ··]
1[··]·ΟΥΤΥ[·]ΟΝΟΣΤΟΥΥΨΙ··[····
2[··]ΥΠΟΑΥ   ΡΗΛΙΑΣΑΜΜΙΑΣΤΗ·
3[····]   ΠΕΡΙΑΥΤΟΥΔ·
4[·····]··   ΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ······
4a[········· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ουτυ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ονοσ
</orig>
τοῦ
Ὑψι
<unclear reason="damage" >
κλ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
έους
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="left" />
ὑπὸ
Αὐ
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ρηλίας
μμ
ίας
τὴ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" dim="left" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
περὶ
αὐτοῦ
<orig n="unresolved" >
δ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
χρ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
εο
</unclear>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
φυλάκιον
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἐπὶ
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
στε
</unclear>
<lb n="4a" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
φανηφόρου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, ?τοῦ Τυφῶνος

Translation:

The platform and the sarcophagus [·· ? ··] Aurelia Ammia [·· ? ··] Property-archive when the ste[phanephoros was . . . ]

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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