12.806. Funerary inscription
- Description:
- White marble block from a composite funerary monument, broken at both ends (H. 0.36, W. 1.01, D. c. 1.30). Moulded back and front.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the front on two fasciae: l. 1 above moulding, ll. 2-4 below.
- Letters:
- Standard forms, 0.03. Ligatures: ΜΝ (l.1) ΜΜ (l.2), ΜΗ (l.3, twice).
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-west: reused upside down, and partly buried at the west end of the south wall.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 120); Lines 2-4 copied in 1975, line 1 in 1976.
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [···]ΟΥ καθ′οὗ ἐπικεῖται τόπου τὸ μνῆμα διὰ του[···]
- 2[···] σορῷ γεγραμμένα ἐξώλης εἶναι καὶ αὐτὸ̣[ς ···]
- 3[···]Α̣Ν μήτε γυναῖκας τίκτειν κατὰ φύσιν μήτε [···]
- 4[···]Π̣Ι̣Η δὲ πᾶν γένος αὐτοῦ βωμῶν τε ἱερῶν [···]
- 1[···]ΟΥΚΑΘ′ΟΥΕΠΙΚΕΙΤΑΙΤΟΠΟΥΤΟΜΝΗΜΑΔΙΑΤΟΥ[···]
- 2[···]ΣΟΡΩΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΑΕΞΩΛΗΣΕΙΝΑΙΚΑΙΑΥΤ·[· ···]
- 3[···]·ΝΜΗΤΕΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΣΤΙΚΤΕΙΝΚΑΤΑΦΥΣΙΝΜΗΤΕ[···]
- 4[···]··ΗΔΕΠΑΝΓΕΝΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΒΩΜΩΝΤΕΙΕΡΩΝ[···]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ου
</orig>
καθ′
οὗ
ἐπικεῖται
τόπου
τὸ
μνῆμα
διὰ
του
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
σορῷ
γεγραμμένα
ἐξώλης
εἶναι
καὶ
αὐτ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὸ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
ν
</orig>
μήτε
γυναῖκας
τίκτειν
κατὰ
φύσιν
μήτε
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
πι
</unclear>
η
</orig>
δὲ
πᾶν
γένος
αὐτοῦ
βωμῶν
τε
ἱερῶν
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] the place on which the memorial lies through [ . . . ] written [on the] sarcophagus to be destroyed, both himself [·· ? ··] nor women to give birth naturally nor [ . . . all his race and [from] sacred altars [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Elements from a particularly extensive funerary curse.
Photographs:
- Lines 2-4 (1975)
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- Lines 2-4 (1975)
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