13.307. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Right hand side fragment from a white marble sarcophagus (W. 0.42 × H. 0.53 × D. 0.30); no decoration visible.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Standard second to third century forms; ligatures: ΜΜ in l. 1, ΤΗ, l. 5, ΗΜΗ, l. 6.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South-east: beside second field wall south of path east from South-east Gate.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1976)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 140).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0[·· ? ··]
- 1[·· c. 54 ·· Ἀ]μ̣μιανὸν
- 2[·· c. 42 ·· οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερ]ος ἐξουσί-
- 3[αν ἔξει ·· ? ·· ἐπι]χειρήσας
- 4[ἕξει ἐνθάψαι [·· c. 35 ··] ὧν τὸ τρί]τον ἔσται
- 5 [τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον μενεῖ κύρια τὰ ὑπ'ἐμοῦδιατεταγ]μενα τῆς ἐπι-
- 6[γραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρο]υ τὸ · Φλ. stop Δημη
- 6a[τρίου μήνος [·· ? ··]] vac.
- 0[·· ? ··]
- 1[·······················································]·ΜΙΑΝΟΝ
- 2[·······················································]ΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙ
- 3[······ - - - ···]ΧΕΙΡΗΣΑΣ
- 4[·····················]ΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ
- 5[·································································]ΜΕΝΑΤΗΣΕΠΙ
- 6[······ ·····················································]ΥΤΟ·ΦΛ stop ΔΗΜΗ
- 6a[···········]
Apparatus
Supplements embody the sense of the standard formulae, but not necessarily the precise wording used here.
Translation:
. . . ]Ammianos [ . .c. 42 . . and no-one else shall have ] a right [ to bury here . . . c. 35 . . . since whoever] undertakes [ to do so shall pay . . .? . . . of which one third] shall be [for the prosecutor; and none the less shall my instructions remain valid. A copy of the] inscription [was deposited in the Property -archive in the stephanephorate] of Flavius (or Flavia) Deme[trios (or Demetria) month ?]
Commentary:
Neither Ammianos notr the stephanephoros are identifiable at present.
Photographs:
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