15.252. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the upper edge of a white marble sarcophagus front (W. 0.65 × H. 0.31 × D. 0.20).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the upper moulding, and on the top moulding of the central panel.
- Letters:
- Standard forms; 0.025
- Date:
- First to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature).
- Findspot:
- Stray
- Original Location:
- Unknown, presumably Necropolis
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Village 12).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [···]Υ ὁ πάππος αὐτοῦ καὶ Μ̣[···]
- 2[···]Αὐ v. ρ(ηλία) Κωμικὴ Ἑρμείου ἡ μ[ητὴρ αὐτοῦ ···]
- 1[···]ΥΟΠΑΠΠΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙ·[···]
- 2[···]ΑΥ ΡΚΩΜΙΚΗΕΡΜΕΙΟΥΗΜ[········· ···]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
υ
</orig>
ὁ
πάππος
αὐτοῦ
καὶ
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
μ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐ
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ρ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ηλία
</supplied>
Κωμικὴ
Ἑρμείου
ἡ
μ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ητὴρ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
αὐτοῦ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] his grandfather and M[·· ? ·· and] Aur(elia) Komike (daughter of) Hermeios, his m[other] [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
It is probable that the text is listing those who have been or will be buried in the sarcophagus, the first name to survive being that of the owner's grandfather, and since l .2 gives almost certainly the name of his mother, the intervening one was, no doubt, his father, who may well have been a Marcus Aurelius.
Photographs:
- Face (1980)
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