Description:
Lower right hand corner white marble fragment W. 0.40 × H. 0.33 × D. 0.34 from a sarcophagus base.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.02; the last two letters of l. 2 rather smaller.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
City, North-west: in field just E. of west wall.
Original Location:
Unknown, presumably Necropolis, East
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 143)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [···]
2[···]Ι̣Ι̣ΟΣ[···]
3[···]Ι̣ΚΟΥ τοῦ ΤΕ[···]
4[···]Ε̣ οὐδεὶς ΚΑ[···]
5[··· τῆ]ς̣ ἐπιγραφῆς[···]
6[···]Λ̣ arabesque [···]
1[···]
2[···]··ΟΣ[···]
3[···]·ΚΟΥΤΟΥΤΕ[···]
4[···]·ΟΥΔΕΙΣΚΑ[···]
5[·····]·ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣ[···]
6[···]· arabesque [···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΙ
</unclear>
ΟΣ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ι
</unclear>
ΚΟΥ
τοῦ
ΤΕ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ε
</unclear>
οὐδεὶς
ΚΑ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῆ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ς
</unclear>
ἐπιγραφῆς
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Λ
</unclear>
<g type="arabesque" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Fragments from a funerary prohibition - see commentary.

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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