Description:
A white marble fragment (W. 0.26 × H. 0.24 × D. 0.25) perhaps from the lower right-hand corner of a statue base without moulding, but more probably cut down.
Text:
Inscribed on the face, which has been gouged out subsequently.
Letters:
Standard forms, 0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1981)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980 (Museum 63)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
0 ·· ? ··]
1[·· c. 7 ··]Λ̣Η̣
2[·· c. 7 ··]ΟΣΣΥ [·]
3[·· c. 7 ·· δ]ημόσιος ΒΟΥ
4[·· c. 7 ·· τ]ὰς πρεπού-
5[σας τείμας] vac.
0·· ? ··]
1[·······]··
2[·······]ΟΣΣΥ[·]
3[········]ΗΜΟΣΙΟΣΒΟΥ
4[········]ΑΣΠΡΕΠΟΥ
5[·········]   
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λη
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
οσσυ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
δ
</supplied>
ημόσιος
<orig n="unresolved" >
βου
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ὰς
πρεπού
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σας
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τείμας
</supplied>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Reference to a public entiti; to fitting ?honours.

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)
Face (1981)
 Face (1981)

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