Description:
White marble fragment without edges (W. 0.39 × H. 0.10 × D. 0.18).
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters:
0.025-0.03
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, W. Skene.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Odeon 21)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]··Ι̣ΟΙ̣Ι̣Σ̣Ο̣[·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ··]Ε ἕξει ἐξουσία[ν ·· ? ··]
4[·· ? ··] τῆς σοροῦ ἢ το[ῦ ·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ··
1·· ? ··]
2[ - - - ]···Ο····[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]ΕΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑ[· - - - ]
4[ - - - ]ΤΗΣΣΟΡΟΥΗΤΟ[· - - - ]
5[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιισο
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ε
</orig>
ἕξει
ἐξουσία
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
τῆς
σοροῦ
το
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Elements of a funerary prohibition; reference to authority, to sarcophagus.

Photographs:
none.

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