4.304. Latin funerary inscription
- Description:
- White marble ossuary (W. 0.565 × H. 0.33 × D. 0.34), the front partly lost; reliefs of rams' heads, joined by a swag, on the front face, and blanks for the same on the sides.
- Text:
- Inscribed below the swag on the front face, and presumably also within it, unless the text began on the lost lid.
- Letters:
- Latin capitals; 0.02; simple stops on either side of figure
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering, style of decoration).
- Findspot:
- South Agora, Agora Gate: found during demolition of a village house, re-used in the wall
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1983)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (83.66).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 558, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 502
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0 [·· ? ··]
- 1 speculator legion(is) III´ Gallicae
- 0[·· ? ··]
- 1SPECULATORLEGIONIIIGALLICAE
<ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
speculator
<expan>
<abbr>
legion
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
is
</supplied>
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
Gallicae
</ab>
Apparatus
MAMA printed an initial L above the opening letter. This is presumably an interpretation of a mark just above the surviving ram's head, on the left; there is nothing on the stone immediately above the surviving line.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] Scout of the third legion Gallicae.
Commentary:
The rather naive style of the relief suggests the same time-period as the lettering (so Natalie de Chaisemartin).
Photographs:
- Face (1983)
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- Face (1983)
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