Description:
Upper left corner of a block (W. 0.20 × H. 0.23 × D. 0.27) from a composite monument, probably cut down for a building block.
Text:
Inscribed on the face. The first letters began on the preceding block.
Letters:
Second to third centuries A.D. standard forms; 0.05; star as stop.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.12)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Μ̣ΕΝ[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]Ε̣ stop ΑΙ[·· ? ··]
2a[·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]·ΕΝ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]· stop ΑΙ[ - - - ]
2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
εν
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
</orig>
<g type="stop" />
ΑΙ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

There may be an erased line above.

Translation:
not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
no comment.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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