Description:
Piece from the top of a marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.16 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.29) .
Text:
Inscribed on the face; ll. 1-2 on upper moulding.
Letters:
0.023
Date:
Second century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Stray
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1974 (74.236)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ··]κατὰ Τ[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]ΑΝΤΑΕ[·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ··]Κ̣ΟΡΟΙΤ[·· ? ··]
4[·· ? ·· ?δια]τ̣άξητ[αι ·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··] τοὺς [·· ? ··]
5a[·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]ΚΑΤΑΤ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]ΑΝΤΑΕ[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]·ΟΡΟΙΤ[ - - - ]
4[ - - - ···]·ΑΞΗΤ[·· - - - ]
5[ - - - ]ΤΟΥΣ[ - - - ]
5a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
κατὰ
<orig n="unresolved" >
τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ανταε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
κ
</unclear>
οροιτ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
δια
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
άξητ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αι
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
τοὺς
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 3, Κ could be Χ

Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Surely funerary; l. 4 probably from a statement of the right of the owner to designate persons for burial in subsidiary tomb-places.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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