Description:
Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.45 × H. 0.44 × D. 0.11), whose decoration has been ? deliberately chipped away.
Text:
Inscribed along upper edge (a) and in a central tabella (b).
Letters:
standard second to third century forms; l.1, 0.025; ll.2 ff, 0.015
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Martyrion: SW complex, triconch church, south apse (epig. invent 93.10)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1994)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1993 (93.38)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Λ̣ΣΕΙ̣[·· ? ··]
1Η[·· ? ··]
2ΟΥΔ̣[·· ? ··]
3ΛΗ[·· ? ··]
4ΕΥ[·· ? ··]
5Ο[·· ? ··]
6Ε[·· ? ··]
7Υ̣[·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]·ΣΕ·[ - - - ]
1Η[ - - - ]
2ΟΥ·[ - - - ]
3ΛΗ[ - - - ]
4ΕΥ[ - - - ]
5Ο[ - - - ]
6Ε[ - - - ]
7·[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
σε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
η
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ου
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
λη
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ευ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ο
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="6" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="7" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1994)
 Face (1994)
Face (1994)
 Face (1994)

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