Description:
Acroterion fragment from a sarcophagus lid W. 0.32 × H. 0.25 × D. 0.245 with a relief of Ganymede and the eagle, broken away above.
Text:
Below, a simple moulding, inscribed in one line on the upper fascia, which is broken to the left and worn to the right.
Letters:
Standard forms; 0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray in 1965
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1983)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.476)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ·· Μά]ρκου Αὐρ(ηλίου) Α̣[·· ? ··]
1a [?·· ? ··
1[ - - - ··]ΡΚΟΥΑΥΡ·[ - - - ]
1a[?·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Μά
</supplied>
ρκου
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<unclear reason="damage" >
Α
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="1a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" id="gap03" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] [Ma]rcus Aur(elius) A[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

The inscription presumably continued on the sarcophagus itself. The text names a Marcus Aurelius A[.. in the genitive case—not necessarily a filiation (e.g. ἡ σορὸς ἔστι + gen.).

Photographs:

Face (1983)
 Face (1983)
Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

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