15.344. Funerary fragment

Description:
Fragment (W. 0.28 x H. 0.40 xD. 0.06) from a white marble garland sarcophagus, including the upper left corner of a centra moulded tabella
Text:
On the sarcophagus, within the tabella, from which it is probable that an earlier inscription has been erased.
Letters:
Roughly and rather unevenly cut; lunate sigma.
Date:
The inscription seems to be secondary, and could postdate the production of the sarcophagus, which Isik dates as third century, by many years; there is insufficient evidence for dating it, but it could be as late as the fourth century A.D.
Findspot:
Unknown
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by Isik. Read by Reynolds from the photograph.
Bibliography:
Reynolds, and Isik 197
Text constituted from:
Transcription of the photograph (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ἡ σο[ρὸς ?καὶ ὁ τόπος]
2 ἐ̣ν̣ [?ᾧ ἐπικεῖται]
3ἐ̣σ̣[τιν ·· ? ··]
3a[·· ? ··
1ΗΣΟ[············]
2··[· ·········]
3··[··· - - - ]
3a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἡ
σο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρὸς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ὁ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τόπος
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἐν
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ᾧ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐπικεῖται
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἐσ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τιν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Translation:

The sarcophagus [? and the plot] on [?which it stands] belong [ to - - -

Commentary:

The restorations printed here are from the standard formula stating the owner(s) of sarcophagi when these are persons of comparatively modest status.

Photographs:
none.

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