1.165. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Part of a white marble sarcophagus lid (W. 0.647 × H. 0.70 × D. 0.135).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the edge; re-carved in the Byzantine period.
- Letters:
- Standard forms; 0.02-0.025
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: North Aisle
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1966)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Temple 2)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ·· ἀντίγραφον ταύτης τῆς ἐπ]ι̣γράφης ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χ[ρεοφυλάκιον ···]
- 1[ - - - ·····················]·ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΕΙΣΤΟΧ[··········· ···]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀντίγραφον
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ταύτης
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τῆς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
γράφης
ἀπετέθη
εἰς
τὸ
χ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ρεοφυλάκιον
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
Χ apparently altered to chi-rho - probably in the Byzantine period, rather than an otherwise unattested abbreviation of χρ(εοφυλάκιον).
Translation:
[ . . . a copy of this in]scription was desposited in [ the property archive . . .
Commentary:
A good example of the re-use of spolia.
Photographs:
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