Description:
Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus front.
Text:
Inscribed on different planes; very worn.
Letters:
Standard forms.
Date:
First to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, West: west face of west stretch, just south of West Gate.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1977)
History of discovery:
Recorded, and squeeze taken, by the NYU expedition (Walls 14).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [···]Ι̣ ὁ πλά̣τ̣ας̣ κ̣αὶ̣ ἡ̣ σ̣ορ̣ὸ̣ς [·]Λ̣ [·] α̣ [···]
2[···] ΠΛ [··] ΗΤΟΛ [·· c. 4 ··]Λ̣Λ̣Τ̣Ω̣ΣΠ [·] Ι̣ [···]
3[···] Αὐρηλία Ἀμμία Ι̣ [···]
4[···]ΝΑ [··]
5[···]
1[···]·ΟΠΛ··Α··Α···Ο··Σ[·]·[·]·[···]
2[···]ΠΛ[··]ΗΤΟΛ[····]····ΣΠ[·]·[···]
3[···]ΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΑΜΜΙΑ·[···]
4[···]ΝΑ[··]
5[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
πλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
άτ
</unclear>
α
<unclear reason="damage" >
ς
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
κ
</unclear>
α
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρὸ
</unclear>
ς
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Λ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
πλ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ητολ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λλτω
</unclear>
σπ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
Αὐρηλία
Ἀμμία
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
να
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>

Apparatus

The letters indicated as uncertain are extremely unclear.

Translation:

The platform and the sarcophagus [·· ? ··] Aurelia Ammia [·· ? ··]

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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