Description:
Piece from the lower part of a white marble sarcophagus (W. 0.90 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.13).
Text:
Inscribed on the bottom moulding.
Letters:
0.02.
Date:
Third century A.D. (nomenclature and lettering).
Findspot:
Temple/Church: T. Aph. XVI
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1962 (62.305).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]μου[τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρ]εοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Μάρκου Αὐρ[ηλίου ·· ? ··]
2[·· c. 36 ··]μου scroll
1[ - - - ]ΜΟΥ[·········································]ΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΜΑΡΚΟΥΑΥΡ[····· - - - ]
2[····································]ΜΟΥ scroll
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
μου
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῆς
ἐπιγραφῆς
ἀντίγραφον
ἀπετέθη
εἰς
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
χρ
</supplied>
εοφυλάκιον
ἐπὶ
στεφανηφόρου
Μάρκου
Αὐρ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="36" unit="character" dim="left" />
μου
<g type="scroll" />
</ab>

Translation:

[A copy of the inscription was placed in the] property-archive in the stephanephorate of Marcus Aurelius [·· ? ··

·· ? ··] in the month [Pane]mos or [Hebdo]mos.

Commentary:

l. 2, must be the end of a month name, Πάνημος or Ἕβδομος.

Photographs:
none.

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