15.271. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment of a white marble panel or sarcophagus front, back surviving but without edges (W. 0.215 × H. 0.21 × D. 0.05).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.027; beta with open lower bowl.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Stray find
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.442).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[·· c. 11 ··]· Ἀπο[?λλώνιος]
- 2[·· c. 9 ··]διάδο[χος ?αὐτοῦ]
- 3[καὶ οὓς ἂν] αὐτὸς β[ουληθῇ]
- 4[τῆς ἐπιγρα]φῆς ἀντ̣[ίγραφον]
- 5[ἀπετέθη εἰ]ς τὸ χρε̣[οφυλάκιον]
- 6[ἐπὶ στεφαν]η̣φό̣[ρου τοῦ δεῖνος]
- 6a[·· ? ··
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[···········]·ΑΠΟ[·······]
- 2[·········]ΔΙΑΔΟ[········]
- 3[··········]ΑΥΤΟΣΒ[······]
- 4[·········]ΦΗΣΑΝ·[·······]
- 5[·········]ΣΤΟΧΡ·[·········]
- 6[·········]·Φ·[··· ··········]
- 6a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="11"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<gap
reason="illegible"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
Ἀπο
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
λλώνιος
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="9"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
διάδο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
χος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
αὐτοῦ
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
οὓς
ἂν
</supplied>
αὐτὸς
β
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ουληθῇ
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τῆς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπιγρα
</supplied>
φῆς
ἀν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ίγραφον
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀπετέθη
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰ
</supplied>
ς
τὸ
χρ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ε
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
οφυλάκιον
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
στεφαν
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
η
</unclear>
φ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ό
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ρου
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τοῦ
δεῖνος
</supplied>
<lb
n="6a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 2, or διάδο[χοι].
Translation:
...] ?Apollonios [... and ... his] heir [and theose whom he wishes.] A copy of the inscribed text [was deposited in] the archive [in the year of the] stephanephorus [... month? ...].
Commentary:
l. 1, given the standard character of the class of funerary texts to which this belongs a name such as Apollonios is very likely at this point.
l. 2, the text follows from the parallels, e.g. [[...]]
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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