Description:
Large white marble block W. 0.96 × H. 0.55 × D. 0.40, chipped along all edges, the surface polished over approximately two thirds of its area, but roughened at the right side.
Text:
The inscription begins close to the upper edge, and perhaps commenced on an upper block.
Letters:
irregular in size and alignment; broad, shallow trenches; non-standard forms; ave. 0.07.
Date:
First to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): re-used in the stretch east of Museum Garden.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1978)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 12).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ΜΗΝ vac.
2 Διογένης[···] η̣ς̣
3Διογένο̣[υς]
4 vac.
5 vac.
6[···]μ̣σ̣ν̣η̣ς̣
1ΜΗΝ     
2ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΣ[···]··
3ΔΙΟΓΕΝ·[··]
4   
5   
6[···]·····
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
μην
</orig>
<space extent="5" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
Διογένης
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ης
</unclear>
<lb n="3" />
Διογέν
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
υς
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="5" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="υνρεσολνεδ" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
μσνης
</unclear>
</orig>
</ab>

Apparatus

Line 1: There are traces of a letter to the left of mu, perhaps, but not certainly, an alpha.

Lines2, and 4-6 are in different hands, and much smaller than what precedes.

Translation:

?Men[odotos, or son of Menodotos] Diogenes son of Diogenes [ . . .

Commentary:

This may be from a list of names (its purpose unknown, but perhaps related to membership in a trade guild, since that could explain the rough execution); but the smaller lettering to the right and below suggests rather a series of graffiti.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)

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