6.102. Funerary fragment from Basilica
- Description:
- Fragment from a white marble panel perhaps with back but no edges (W. c. 0.19 × H. 0.29 × D. 0.09).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face which is worn, perhaps by water.
- Letters:
- Standard second to third century forms; no measurements.
- Date:
- Probably third century A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Basilica: Found on the surface: PT W 90 F.48
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1990 (90.q)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ·· Αὐ]ρ̣ηλιο[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]ΑΖ̣ΩΣ[·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ·· ?ἐπὶ στεφαν]ηφ̣όρο[υ ·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ··]Ι̣ΑΥ[·· ? ··]
- 4a[·· ? ··
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ··]·ΗΛΙΟ[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]Α·ΩΣ[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ·········]Η·ΟΡΟ[· - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ]·ΑΥ[ - - - ]
- 4a[·· ? ··
<ab>
</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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Αὐ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
ηλιο
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
α
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ζ
</unclear>
ωσ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
στεφαν
</supplied>
η
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
φ
</unclear>
όρο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
υ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
αυ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
Apparatus
In lines 1, 3 it is impossible to be sure of the case of the partly surviving words; line 2 may have contained a personal name - Ζώσιμος or Ζωσίμη, for example.
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
The title recorded in line 3, stephanephoros, may have been used of a person mentioned and honoured here; but it figures more commonly in the dating formula found in some documentary texts, and particularly in funerary ones.
Photographs:
- Face (1990)
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