12.1013. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the top of a white marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.30 × H. 0.25 × D. 0.13).
- Text:
- Inscribed on upper moulding (ll. 1-2) and below.
- Letters:
- Standard second to third century forms; ll. 1, 2, 0.018; ll. 3, 4, 0.02; o with internal dot for stop.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, West Gate
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- In the dighouse (1990)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1990 (90.b)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]ΤΑΙΣΕ[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]Ι̣ΑΜΕΝ̣[·· ? ··]
- 3[εἰς τὸ χρεοφυ]λάκιον ἐπι̣[·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ·· μη]νος stop ἑβ̣δό[μου ·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]ΤΑΙΣΕ[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]·ΑΜΕ·[ - - - ]
- 3[···········]ΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠ·[ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ··]ΝΟΣ stop Ε·ΔΟ[··· - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ταισε
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
αμε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ν
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
χρεοφυ
</supplied>
λάκιον
ἐπ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μη
</supplied>
νος
<g
type="stop"
/>
ἑ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
β
</unclear>
δό
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μου
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
. . . into the property-]archive [ . . . the ]seventh month [ . . .
Commentary:
Fragments from a funerary formula: reference to the property-archive, and elements of a date.
Photographs:
- Face (1990)
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- Face (1990)
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