13.403. Funerary inscription for Publia Calvisia Peritiane
- Description:
- A white marble sarcophagus lid (W. 1.90 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.87). Beside it is the sarcophagus, broken and badly damaged, with columns at the corners; the tabella ansata has been erased.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the upper rim (l. 1) on two pendants (l.2) and on lower rim (l.3); the state of the surface suggests that ll.1 and 3 were cut over an earlier, erased, text.
- Letters:
- l.2, well cut, 0.065; ll.1 & 3, irregular, ave. 0.03.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South: in a small Turkish graveyard due south of the central section of the southern city walls.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1994)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 17).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 ἡ̣ σ̣ο̣ρ̣ό̣ς ἐστιν καὶ ὁ περὶ αὐτὴν π̣λάτ̣ος Ποπλίας Καλ̣βισίας
- 2 (sic) ΩΖ | ΣΙΝ
- 3 Περιτιανῆς τῆς ἐγγόνου Ἰουλιανοῦ τῆς καὶ
- 1·····ΣΕΣΤΙΝΚΑΙΟΠΕΡΙΑΥΤΗΝ·ΛΑ·ΟΣΠΟΠΛΙΑΣΚΑ·ΒΙΣΙΑΣ
- 2(sic)ΩΖΣΙΝ
- 3ΠΕΡΙΤΙΑΝΗΣΤΗΣΕΓΓΟΝΟΥΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥΤΗΣΚΑΙ
Apparatus
Line 1: πλατός is generally taken to be used as an equivalent of πλατάς, a platform for a tomb.
Line 2, clearly misinscribed for ζῶσιν.
Line 3: the text was presumably completed on the chest of the sarcophagus.
Translation:
i. The sarcophagus and the surrounding platform belongs to Publia Calvisia Peritiane, the grandaughter of Iulianos; she also [·· ? ··]
ii. They live.
Commentary:
Line 2 is commonly taken to indicate that the owners of the tomb were still alive, and tthe formula used here for peritiane would accord with that possibility, although it has been thought by some that continued existence after burial is indicated. P. Calvisia Peritiane is not otherwise attested at present. It is unusual that she is identified in the first instance by reference to a gradfather. He too is not identifiable at present.
Photographs:
- Face (1981)
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- Face (1994)
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