Description:
Five fragments, which do not join, from a sarcophagus front. a. Left side fragment (H. 1.11 x W. 0.58 x D. 1.28) with lower edge surviving; b. fragment from ?right side, without top or bottom edges (H. 0.64 x W. 0.40 x D. 0.18); c. fragment without edges (H. 0.17 x W. 0.22 x D. 0.21); d. fragment without edges (H. 0.18 x W. 0.23 x D. 0.19); e. fragment broken on all sides (H. 0.15 x W. 0.28 x D. 0.13) with traces of cement on the face from re-use.
Text:
Inscribed on the face and within several of the wreaths, which are W. 0.18 in diameter. a. ll.2-5, 8-10, 14-16 within wreaths; b. ll.3-6, 10 ff. within wreaths; c. within a wreath; d. inscribed above a wreath, the upper edge of which survives, chipped; e. inscribed within a wreath.
Letters:
Standard second-/third-century forms, 0.015-0.02.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (terminology, lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, South (west part) central stretch
Original Location:
South necropolis
Last recorded location:
a. findspot; b.-e. in Museum
History of discovery:
a., the left side fragment, recorded by Reichel (R I, 19); by Gaudin (116); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition. b., c., d. (excavation inventory nos 70.220, 72.493, 76.39) and e. recorded by the current expedition.
Bibliography:
a. published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 148; by J. M. R. Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.423, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 346; all fragments published by Roueché, PPA 71.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); notebooks; publications. This edition Roueché (2007).
a
i
1 Σάρδις
2 κοινὸν Ἀσίας
3 παν-
4κράτι-
5ον
6 Λαυδίκειαν -
7Κλαυδίηα
8 παν-
9 κράτι -
10 ον
11 Μιτυλήνην Ἀμ-
12μώνηα παίδων -
13καὶ ἀγενείων
14 παν-
15 κράτι -
16ον
ii
1 ·· ? ··]
2 ·· ? ··]
3 π[αν]-
4κρά[τι]-
5ον
6 Ιερὰν̣-
7πόλι[ν]
8 παν-
9 κράτι -
10 ον
11 Λαυδίκε̣[ι]-
12αντῆςΣ[υ]-
13ρίας
14 παν-
15 κράτι -
16ον
b
i
0 ·· ? ··]
1[Ἀντιό]χ̣ειαντῆςΣυρί̣α̣ς
2[?Πύθι]α πρὸς Δάφνην
3 παν-
4κράτι -
5ον -
6       vacat
7[Ἔφε]σον
8[Ἐφέ]σ̣ηα
9κ[αὶ ἀγε]ν̣είων
10 [πα]ν -
10a[κράτι]-
10b[ον]
10c[·· ? ··
ii
0·· ? ··]
1       vacat
2       vacat
3 Νέμει-
4α παν-
5 κράτι -
6ον
7 Ἔφεσο̣ν̣ κοινὸν
8 Ἀσ[ίας πα]ίδων
9κ[αὶ ἀγε]ν̣είων
10 [παν]-
10a[κράτι]-
10b[ον]
10c[·· ? ··
c
0·· ? ··]
1 παν-
2κρά -
3τιον
d
0[?Ἀφροδεισιας]
1[?Ἀφρο]δ̣εισ̣[? vac. ]
2[ίηα] Ἀδώ- vac.
3[?νηα] τρὶς v.
3a wreath
e
0·· ? ··]
1 Ἡρα-
2κλεί-
3αν
a
i
1ΣΑΡΔΙΣ
2ΚΟΙΝΟΝΑΣΙΑΣ
3ΠΑΝ
4ΚΡΑΤΙ
5ΟΝ
6ΛΑΥΔΙΚΕΙΑΝ
7ΚΛΑΥΔΙΗΑ
8ΠΑΝ
9ΚΡΑΤΙ
10ΟΝ
11ΜΙΤΥΛΗΝΗΝΑΜ
12ΜΩΝΗΑΠΑΙΔΩΝ
13ΚΑΙΑΓΕΝΕΙΩΝ
14ΠΑΝ
15ΚΡΑΤΙ
16ΟΝ
ii
1·· ? ··]
2·· ? ··]
3Π[··]
4ΚΡΑ[··]
5ΟΝ
6ΙΕΡΑ·
7ΠΟΛΙ[·]
8ΠΑΝ
9ΚΡΑΤΙ
10ΟΝ
11ΛΑΥΔΙΚ·[·]
12ΑΝΤΗΣΣ[·]
13ΡΙΑΣ
14ΠΑΝ
15ΚΡΑΤΙ
16ΟΝ
b
i
0·· ? ··]
1[·····]·ΕΙΑΝΤΗΣΣΥΡ··Σ
2[····]ΑΠΡΟΣΔΑΦΝΗΝ
3ΠΑΝ
4ΚΡΑΤΙ
5ΟΝ
6       vacat
7[···]ΣΟΝ
8[···]·ΗΑ
9Κ[·····]·ΕΙΩΝ
10[··]Ν
10a[·····]
10b[··]
10c[·· ? ··
ii
0·· ? ··]
1       vacat
2       vacat
3ΝΕΜΕΙ
4ΑΠΑΝ
5ΚΡΑΤΙ
6ΟΝ
7ΕΦΕΣ··ΚΟΙΝΟΝ
8ΑΣ[·····]ΙΔΩΝ
9Κ[·····]·ΕΙΩΝ
10[···]
10a[·····]
10b[··]
10c[·· ? ··
c
0·· ? ··]
1ΠΑΝ
2ΚΡΑ
3ΤΙΟΝ
d
0[···········]
1[····]·ΕΙ·[···]
2[···]ΑΔΩ-   
3[···]ΤΡΙΣ 
3a wreath
e
0·· ? ··]
1ΗΡΑ
2ΚΛΕΙ
3ΑΝ
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Apparatus

A: ll.6-7: Ἱεράπολιν MAMA.

ll.11-12: ΑΜΝΩΝΗΑ Reinach.

Translation:

(sc. He won)

a. Col. 1, at Sardis, in the provincial festival of Asia, the pancration; at Laodicea, in the Claudiea, the pancration; at Mitylene, in the Ammonea, the pancration of boys and of young men;

Col. 2, [ at ?-] the pancration; at Hierapolis, the pancration; at Laodicea in Syria, the pancration;

b. ...]at Antioch in Syria, in the Pythia at Daphne, the pancration, in the Nemeia, the pancration; at Ephesus, in the Ephesea, the pancration; at Ephesus, in the provincial festival of Asia, [the pancration] of boys and of young men; [...]

c. [...], the pancration [...]

d. [...] [?At Aphrodisias, ?the Aphrodisiea] ?Ado[nea

e. [...] At Heraclea [...]

Commentary:

See discussion at Roueché, 71

Photographs:

Fragment a (1973)
 Fragment a (1973)
Fragment b (1977)
 Fragment b (1977)
Fragment c (1977)
 Fragment c (1977)
Fragment d (1977)
 Fragment d (1977)
Fragment e. (1989)
 Fragment e. (1989)

Representations:

a. Reichel notebook I, 19
 a. Reichel notebook I, 19

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