2.518. Fragment from Bishop's palace
- Description:
- White marble panel fragment (W. 0.15 × H. 0.11 × D. 0.025) with back and, apparently, top and left sides surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- ? Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms; 0.06; triangular trenches
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: MAB 10, Tr. 1-2, Str.3
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Found by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.205)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]ΩΒ[·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]ΩΒ[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
ΩΒ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
This fragment could be early Byzantine, but appears more probably to be inelegant work of an earlier period.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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