Description:
Lower left hand corner of a white marble stele, with two figures in relief within an inset panel (W. 0.30 × H. 0.34 × D. 0.08).
Text:
Inscribed within the panel to left of figures, largely erased.
Letters:
0.015
Date:
Perhaps second century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Stray find in 1964
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (64.497).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ··]·
2Ι̣[·]ΟΓΥ̣
3Χ[··]··
4Α[··]Ι̣[··]
5Ο[·]Λ̣Ι̣Σ̣
6ΔΙ̣[·]Ι̣·
7Β̣[·]Ι̣[·]Γ̣
8Α[···]Λ̣
9Ρ̣Ι̣Ο̣[·]
0·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]·
2·[·]ΟΓ·
3Χ[··]··
4Α[··]·[··]
5Ο[·]···
6Δ·[·]··
7·[·]·[·]·
8Α[···]·
9···[·]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ογ
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
χ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ο
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λισ
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
δ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="7" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
β
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="9" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ριο
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Possibly funerary, but the text is not decipherable.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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