12.632. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Large white marble crowning block moulded on three sides W. 1.59 × H. 0.29 × D. 1.06.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front moulding; the text must have continued on the face of the monument which this feature crowned.
- Letters:
- l.1, 0.028, l.2, 0.025; ligature: ΤΕ, l.1.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, south (east part): in excavation of south wall
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (Walls 147)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); Squeeze in Cambridge, Box 12, 45. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 ἡ σορὸς καὶ αἱ ὑποκείμεναι ἰσῶσται τέσσαρες κα-
- 2τεσκευασμέναι εἰσὶν ὑπὸ Αὐρηλ[ί- ···]
- 1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΑΙΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΑΙΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΤΕΣΣΑΡΕΣΚΑ
- 2ΤΕΣΚΕΥΑΣΜΕΝΑΙΕΙΣΙΝΥΠΟΑΥΡΗΛ[·····]
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ἡ
σορὸς
καὶ
αἱ
ὑποκείμεναι
ἰσῶσται
τέ
σσαρες
κα
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/>
τεσκευασμέναι
εἰσὶν
ὑπὸ
Αὐρηλ
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reason="lost"
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ί-
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reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l.2: Αὐρηλ [ίου or -ίας. or possibly ίων.
Translation:
The sarcophagus and the four burial niches lying belowwereprepared by Aurel[ius or Aureiai or just possibly the Aurelii . . . ]
Commentary:
The tomb appears to have comprised a sarcophagus standing on a structure which contained four subsidiary burial-places.
Photographs:
- Left end (1983)
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- Right end (1983)
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