Description:
Fragment from the base of a white marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.44 × H. 0.43 × D. 0.21).
Text:
Inscribed on three fasciae of moulding.
Letters:
Standard forms; ll. 1-5, 0.018; ll.6 ff., 0.02; ligature, ΝΗ (l.4)
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, North-west: in a field wall north west of the Hadrianic Baths.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1988)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (Village 16).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0 [···]
1[?Μεν]άνδρου τοῦ [···]
2[···]Ε̣Ι ὑπὸ Αὐρ. ΧΑ̣[··]
3[···]ΤΑ τοῦ χρε[οφυλακίου] ?
4[···]ΝΗ ἐνταφησ[-]
5[···]ΙΣ ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνθά̣[ψας ···]
6[··· ἀ]φ′ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἐσται τ̣[οῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ··]
7[··· τῆς ἐπι]γραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπ[έτεθη εἰς τὸ]
8[χρεοφυλάκιο]ν ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ΣΙ̣Ι̣[···]
9 vac. τὸ β´ μηνὸς ζ´ vac.
9a vac.
0[···]
1[···]ΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥ[···]
2[···]·ΙΥΠΟΑΥΡΧ·[··]
3[···]ΤΑΤΟΥΧΡΕ[·········]?
4[···]ΝΗΕΝΤΑΦΗΣ[·]
5[···]ΙΣΕΠΕΙΟΕΝΘ·[··· ···]
6[····]Φ′ΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ·[·············· ··]
7[·········]ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΑΠ[····· ······]
8[···········]ΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΣ··[···]
9   ΤΟΒΜΗΝΟΣΖ   
9a   
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Μεν
</supplied>
άνδρου
τοῦ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
ι
</orig>
ὑπὸ
Αὐρ.
<orig n="unresolved" >
χ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
τα
</orig>
τοῦ
χρε
<supplied reason="lost" >
οφυλακίου
</supplied>
?
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
νη
</orig>
ἐνταφησ
<supplied reason="lost" >
-
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ισ
</orig>
ἐπεὶ
ἐνθ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ψας
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
φ′
ὧν
τὸ
τρίτον
ἐσται
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
οῦ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐκδικήσαντος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="7" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῆς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐπι
</supplied>
γραφῆς
ἀντίγραφον
ἀπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
έτεθη
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
εἰς
τὸ
</supplied>
<lb n="8" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
χρεοφυλάκιο
</supplied>
ν
ἐπὶ
στεφανηφόρου
<orig n="unresolved" >
σ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="9" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
τὸ
<num value="2" >
β
</num>
μηνὸς
<num value="7" >
ζ
</num>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="9a" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Translation:

Elements from a funerary prohibition; perhaps the name Menandros, and an Aurelius Cha-. reference to burial, to a penalty; to a deposit in the property archive under a stephanephoros, for the second time, whose name is lost, in the 6th month.

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1988)
 Face (1988)

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