Description:
A white marble fragment, perhaps from a sarcophagus front, very damaged and worn.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
0.023
Date:
Late second to third centuries A.D. (prosopography).
Findspot:
Temple/Church: 'dallage du narthex' (Gaudin)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (166); further damaged fragment found by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 289, no 189, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 514.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication; Gaudin's squeeze (red book 45v). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1[···]ΥΣΤΑ̣Μ̣Ε̣Ν̣ΟΥΣΘΕ[···]κΟ̣Υ̣Ο̣Σ̣Ε̣Ν̣Δ̣Ε̣Σ̣Ι̣Ο̣
2Νεικόμαχος Βλάστος υἱὸς Λ[ο]υκίου Ἀντωνίου Νεικομάχου [Βλάστου [καὶ ·· ? ·· Ἀντώ]-
3νιος [·· c. 13 ··] υ[ἱ]ὸς αὐτ̣οῦ προμο[ίρ]ως τελευτή[σας]
4[·· ? ··]ΟΥ Κλαυδίου ΣΥ[·· ? ··]
1[···]ΥΣΤ····ΟΥΣΘΕ[···]Κ···········
2ΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΣΒΛΑΣΤΟΣΥΙΟΣΛ[·]ΥΚΙΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΥ[·······[··· - - - ····]
3ΝΙΟΣ[·············]Υ[·]ΟΣΑΥ·ΟΥΠΡΟΜΟ[··]ΩΣΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ[···]
4[ - - - ]ΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΣΥ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
υστ
<unclear reason="damage" >
αμεν
</unclear>
ουσθε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" dim="internal" />
κ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΟΥΟΣΕΝΔΕΣΙΟ
</unclear>
</ab>
<ab>
ΣΠΙΘΕΝ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
Νεικόμαχος
Βλάστος
υἱὸς
Λ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ο
</supplied>
υκίου
Ἀντωνίου
Νεικομάχου
<supplied reason="lost" >
Βλάστου
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀντώ
</supplied>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
νιος
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" dim="internal" />
υ
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ὸς
αὐ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
οῦ
προμο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ίρ
</supplied>
ως
τελευτή
<supplied reason="lost" >
σας
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ου
</orig>
Κλαυδίου
<orig n="unresolved" >
συ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Neikomachos Blastos son of Lucius Antonius Neikomachos [? Blastos . . . ?Anto]nius [·· ? ··] his son, having died prematurely [·· ? ··] Cladius SU [·· ? ··].

Commentary:

No commentary.

Photographs:

Part (1978)
 Part (1978)

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