Description:
Fragment from the upper part of a white marble sarcophagus front, with upper edge surviving (W. 0.31 × H. 0.27 × D. 0.09).
Text:
Inscribed on upper moulding (l.1) and on face below.
Letters:
Standard forms; 0.025
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Sebasteion: NE Por I, Ic.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1981)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1981 (81.96)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Α̣ΡΙ v. [·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]ΩΝΗ[·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣ΟΣΑΥ[·· ? ··]
4[βου]ληθῆ ἐνθ[άψαι ·· ? ··]
5[·· ? ·· συ]νχωρησ[·· ? ··]
6[·· ? ··] ποιησ[·· ? ··]
7[·· ? ··]Ι̣ΘΕΣΤ̣[·· ? ··]
8[·· ? ··]Α̣[·· ? ··]
8a[·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]·ΡΙ [ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]ΩΝΗ[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]··ΟΣΑΥ[ - - - ]
4[···]ΛΗΘΗΕΝΘ[···· - - - ]
5[ - - - ··]ΝΧΩΡΗΣ[ - - - ]
6[ - - - ]ΠΟΙΗΣ[ - - - ]
7[ - - - ]·ΘΕΣ·[ - - - ]
8[ - - - ]·[ - - - ]
8a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
ρι
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ωνη
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιι
</unclear>
οσαυ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
βου
</supplied>
ληθῆ ἐνθ
<supplied reason="lost" >
άψαι
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
συ
</supplied>
νχωρησ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ποιησ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
θεσ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="8" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="8a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, ὠνή[?σατο]

Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Mentions of burial and of permission.

Photographs:

Face (1981)
 Face (1981)

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