Description:
Fragment from the bottom of a white marble sarcophagus (W. 0.31 × H. 0.23 × D. 0.30).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Standard forms; 0.02.
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 436)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [·· ? ··]ΚΑΙΤ[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]Ι̣ καὶ προσα[ποτεισάτω ·· ? ··]
3[·· ? ·· ὧ]ν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται[ τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]ΚΑΙΤ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]·ΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΑ[········· - - - ]
3[ - - - ·]ΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ[··············· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
καιτ
</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>
</orig>
καὶ
προσα
<supplied reason="lost" >
ποτεισάτω
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ν
τὸ
τρίτον
ἔσται
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῦ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐκδικήσαντος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] and let him pay [·· ? ··]of which a third is the property [of the prosecutor . . .

Commentary:

Elements from a funerary prohibition.

Photographs:

Face (1994)
 Face (1994)

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