Description:
A white marble garland sarcophagus; see Isik for full description.
Text:
Inscribed along the central part of the upper rim, apparently with a vacat on either side.
Letters:
Fairly rough and unevenly cut, the last four letters damaged, ave. 0.045; lunate sigma.
Date:
The sarcophagus could well be markedly earlier than the letters, which are difficult to date, but perhaps of the fourth century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Unknown
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1972)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Reynolds and Isik 80
Detail (1972)
  Detail (1972)
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 vac. Χρησ[τι]ανοῦ̣ vac.
1   ΧΡΗΣ[··]ΑΝΟ·   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Χρησ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τι
</supplied>
ανο
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Translation:

(Tomb of) Chrestianos(?).

Commentary:

The text looks as if it gave an owner's name, added perhaps when the sarcophagus was in secondary use. Names like this which are derived from words with the sense of 'useful' (Χρήσιμος, Χρῆστος) suggest a modest social context.

Photographs:
none.

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