Description:
White marble fragment from a sarcophagus front with top edge stepped back to receive lid ( W. 0.20 × H. 0.235 × D. 0.14).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
standard, 0.03
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
SW Sebasteion, 87-1
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1987 (87.403)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]λίας Φρ[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]ται ΑΝ[·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ·· γεγ]ρ̣αμμε[ν·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]ΛΙΑΣΦΡ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]ΤΑΙΑΝ[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ···]·ΑΜΜΕ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
λίας
Φρ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ται
ΑΝ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
γεγ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
αμμε
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, e.g. [ἔσ]ται, [ἐξέσ]ται, [εἰσωσ]ται

l. 3, e.g. [γεγ]ραμμέ[νος], [προγεγ]ραμμέ[νος]

Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

? mention of –lia Phr-, and of something written (probably persons).

Photographs:

Face (1988)
 Face (1988)

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