12.906. Funerary fragment
- 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- Unpublished.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>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
ὁ
πλ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
άτ
</unclear>
α
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ς
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
α
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὶ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἡ
</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"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<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"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<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"
/>
Apparatus
The letters indicated as uncertain are extremely unclear.
Translation:
The platform and the sarcophagus [·· ? ··] Aurelia Ammia [·· ? ··]
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
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