Description:
Fragment from the upper edge of a white marble panel (W. 0.28 × H. 0.23 × D. 0.105).
Text:
Inscribed along the upper rim, above radiate relief decoration below.
Letters:
Simple; lunate sigma; 0.025
Date:
First to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, Water Channel area IV, Tr. 6, in stone wall on surface.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Found by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.101)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ·· ἀ]ρτοποιός v. Ϲ̣[·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ·]ΡΤΟΠΟΙΟΣ ·[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ρτοποιός
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ϲ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

?] baker

Commentary:

Possibly funerary.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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