13.306. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- White marble block, partly buried and broken at right side (W. 0.85 x H. c. 0.66 visible x D. c. 0.22).
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line across on one face, whose surface is lost to left.
- Letters:
- Probably standard forms; 0.04; lunate sigma.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South-east: re-used a little south of the East Gate.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 128.
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ·· τ]οῖς κληρονόμοις Αὐρηλίο[υ ·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ·]ΟΙΣΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΟΙΣΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τ
</supplied>
οῖς
κληρονόμοις
Αὐρηλίο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
υ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
It is not clear whether there was ever text above and/or below the line that survives.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] to the heirs of Aurelius [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Heirs are not often named in funerary texts, and normally in the nominative or genitive case; but funerary inscriptions are not invariably drafted in standard formulae, so that one which used the dative is entirely acceptable.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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