13.132. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Lower part of a broken white marble sarcophagus (W. 1.53 × H. 0.62 × D. 0.84).
- Text:
- Inscribed in an area much damaged
- Letters:
- Poorly cut; 0.02-0.25; lunate epsilon, sigma
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus 435)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· c. 10 ··]ΨΝ ἰδιω[·· ? ··]
- 2 ΚΟΥ ἐνταφήσ[εται] Μελτίνη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ [·· ? ··]
- 3 θαψε τοὺς ΑΚΤΟΕΜΑΤΟΥΣ αὐτοῦ ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει [·· ? ··]
- 4 ΝΑ οὔτε εἰς τὴν σορὸν οὔτε εἰς [τὰς] ἰσσ[ῶσστας ·· ? ··]
- 1[··········]ΨΝΙΔΙΩ[ - - - ]
- 2ΚΟΥΕΝΤΑΦΗΣ[····]ΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΗΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΥΤΟΥ[ - - - ]
- 3ΘΑΨΕΤΟΥΣΑΚΤΟΕΜΑΤΟΥΣΑΥΤΟΥΕΤΕΡΟΣΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΞΕΙ[ - - - ]
- 4ΝΑΟΥΤΕΕΙΣΤΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΟΥΤΕΕΙΣ[···]ΙΣΣ[······ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="10"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ψν
</orig>
ἰδιω
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
κου
</orig>
ἐνταφήσ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εται
</supplied>
Μελτίνη
ἡ
θυγάτηρ
αὐτοῦ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
θαψε
τοὺς
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ακτοεματουσ
</orig>
αὐτοῦ
ἕτερος
δὲ
οὐδεὶς
ἕξει
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
να
</orig>
οὔτε
εἰς
τὴν
σορὸν
οὔτε
εἰς
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὰς
</supplied>
ἰσσ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ῶσστας
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··]Meltine his daughter will be buried [ . . .] to bury [·· ? ··] no-one else will have [ authority to bury anyone] neither in the sarcophagus nor in the burial niches[·· ? ··]
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
- Face (1994)
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- Face (1994)
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