Description:
White marble base, weathered (W. 0.25 × H. 0.75), possibly broken away above, damaged down left side, slightly moulded down right side.
Text:
Inscribed on the exposed face
Letters:
0.03-0.04.
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, South-west: re-used, upside down, built into the south-western stretch, a little west of 12.705 (=Walls 7)
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:
Recorded by K&R. Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 8).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0·· ? ··]-
1τ̣ους τὴν στεφανη-
2 vac. φόρον vac.
2a       vacat
0·· ? ··]
1·ΟΥΣΤΗΝΣΤΕΦΑΝΗ
2   ΦΟΡΟΝ   
2a       vacat
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" type="worddiv" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ους
τὴν
στεφανη
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
φόρον
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, ΟΥΣ is presumably the end of her patronymic or her husband's name.

Translation:

...] the (female) stephanephorus.

Commentary:

Possibly funerary but it seems more likely to be honorary.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face close (1973)
 Face close (1973)

Representations:

Reichel notebook I, 36
 Reichel notebook I, 36

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