Description:
Part of the left side of a white marble block which has been reused as a water trough (W. 0.24 × H. 0.22 × D. 0.035).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
poorly cut; 0.02; rho with a tail.
Date:
First to fourth centuries A.D. (formulae, lettering)
Findspot:
stray in 1972
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.11)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
0 ·· ? ··]
1Ν̣Α τ̣οῦ Ἀπ[·· ? ··
2Ἡρακ<λ>ίδη κα̣[ὶ ·· ? ··]
3Θυοδώρα κα̣[ὶ ·· ? ··]
4Μελτίνη θυγ[ατερες ·· ? ··]
5Θυοδώρας [·· ? ··]
6 vv. χαίρ<ε>τε v. [? v. ?·· ? ··]
0·· ? ··]
1·Α·ΟΥΑΠ[ - - -
2ΗΡΑΚΙΔΗΚ·[· - - - ]
3ΘΥΟΔΩΡΑΚ·[· - - - ]
4ΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΘΥΓ[······ - - - ]
5ΘΥΟΔΩΡΑΣ[ - - - ]
6  ΧΑΙΡΤΕ [·? - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
α
</orig>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
οῦ
Ἀπ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
Ἡρακ
<supplied reason="omitted" >
λ
</supplied>
ίδη
κ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
Θυοδώρα
κ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
Μελτίνη
θυγ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ατερες
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="5" />
Θυοδώρας
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="6" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
χαίρ
<supplied reason="omitted" >
ε
</supplied>
τε
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" id="gap07" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?-na (daughter? wife?) of Ap- [...] Heraklide and [...] Thyodora and [...] Meltine, daughters [...] of Thyodora [...]. Farewell.

Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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