Description:
Upper left corner of a white marble statue base W. 0.30 × H. 0.26 × D. 0.26
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded panel (die, surviving, 0.18 x0.13); there was a similar but uninscribed panel on the left face.
Letters:
0.02
Date:
Second-third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: probably from North entrance
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (65.208)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 Μᾶρκον̣ [···]
2 ον Ε̣[···]
3Α[···]
4[···]
1ΜΑΡΚΟ·[···]
2ΟΝ·[···]
3Α[···]
4[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Μᾶρκο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
ον
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ε
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
Α
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, Ε could be Π

Translation:

Marcus [···]

Commentary:

Apparently from the base of a statue for a Marcus: the dedicating bodies will have been named on an upper feature.

Photographs:

 

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