12.637. Funerary inscription for Metrodoros from Zosimos
- Description:
- Round-headed stele (W. 0.36 × H. 0.59 × D. 0.32) containing the bust of a boy (face damaged).
- Text:
- Inscribed below the bust (inscribed area W. 0.355 × H. 0.75).
- Letters:
- l. 1, 0.02, ll. 2f., 0.015; square sigma, irregular zeta.
- Date:
- Late second century or third century A.D. (sculpture, lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (east part): excavation, Tr. 4
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.284)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Relief 3
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Ζώσιμος Μητρο-
- 2δωρον τὸν υἱὸν μνῆ̣[ς]
- 3 vac. χάριν vac.
- 1ΖΩΣΙΜΟΣΜΗΤΡΟ
- 2ΔΩΡΟΝΤΟΝΥΙΟΝΜΝ·[·]
- 3 ΧΑΡΙΝ
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ζώσιμος
Μητρο
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
δωρον
τὸν
υἱὸν
μν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ῆ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
χάριν
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Translation:
Zosimos (set this up) in grateful memory of his son Metrodoros.
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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