13.127. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Two adjoining pieces of a white marble sarcophagus base, partially adapted with a view to re-use (W. c. 1.92 × H. 0.28 × D. 0.83).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the moulding, which was already faulty or damaged (the lettering in lines 2 and 3 dips into a chipped area).
- Letters:
- Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms; ll.1, 2, ave. 0.025; l.3, 0.03. Diacritical points on either side of the second Υ in l.3; ΜΗ ligatured, l.3.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: in the tomb east of the East Wall excavated by the Museum, 1991/92.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1992)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.31, Sarcophagus 203)
- Bibliography:
- Photograph published by R. R. R. Smith, Aphrodisias Papers 3, 69, whence text published SEG 1996.1396.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2τε̣ί̣σ̣ε̣ι̣ τ̣ῷ̣ ἱ̣ε̣ρ̣ω̣τ̣ά̣τ̣ῳ̣ τ̣αμεί̣ῳ̣ ἀργ̣υρίου denarius ´ ε ὧν τ̣ό τρίτον ἔστω τοῦ ἐγδικήσαντος̣·
- 3 τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθ vac. η ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου
- 4 Ἀττάλου υἱοῦ Μενάνδρου μῆνος Τιβερίου vac.
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2Τ················ΑΜΕ··ΑΡ·ΥΡΙΟΥ denarius ´ΕΩΝ·ΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΩΤΟΥΕΓΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟ·
- 3ΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘ ΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ
- 4ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΥΙΟΥΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΜΗΝΟΣΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΥ
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
τ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
είσει
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τῷ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἱερωτάτῳ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
αμε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ίῳ
</unclear>
ἀρ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
γ
</unclear>
υρίου
<g
type="denarius"
/>
´
ε
ὧν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ό
τρίτον
ἔστω
τοῦ
ἐγδικήσαντο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ς
</unclear>
·
<lb
n="3"
/>
τῆς
ἐπιγραφῆς
ἀπετέθ
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
η
ἀντίγραφον
εἰς
τὸ
χρεοφυλάκιον
ἐπὶ
στεφανηφόρου
<lb
n="4"
/>
Ἀττάλου
υἱοῦ
Μενάνδρου
μῆνος
Τιβερίου
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Apparatus
...
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
l. 1, 5,000 denarii
l. 3, The name is oddly expressed; but the same man is described in the same way in 12.526 (=MAMA 577): ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ β Ἀττάλου υἱοῦ Μενάνδρου μῆνος δωδεκάτου.
Photographs:
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