2.526. Funerary verse
- Description:
- Lower right corner of a white marble block with a panel, within a slightly raised rim, on the 3 surviving faces W. 0.25 × H. 0.25 × D. 0.27.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- irregular, possibly late; 0.01 (ο) - 0.02
- Date:
- Third-fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: MAB 13, Tr. 2, Str.1
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.363)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0 ·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣Υ̣
- 2[·· ? ··]ΙΜΟΝ vv.
- 3[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Σ μοῖρα
- 3a[·· ? ··] vacat
- 3b vacat
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]····
- 2[ - - - ]ΙΜΟΝ
- 3[ - - - ]··ΣΜΟΙΡΑ
- 3a[ - - - ]
- 3b vacat
<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"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ιιιυ
</unclear>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ιμον
</orig>
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ιι
</unclear>
σ
</orig>
μοῖρα
<lb
n="3a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="8"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3b"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
A reference to Fate.
Commentary:
Probably from a funerary epigram.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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