15.285. Fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the top of a marble block (W. 0.16 × H. 0.13 × D. 0.22).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face in an area defined above by an incised line.
- Letters:
- 0.02
- 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 1973 (73.245)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]ι̣ος Ζ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ·· Ἀ]λ̣εξ̣[ανδρ·· ? ··]
- 2a[·· ? ··
- 1[ - - - ]·ΟΣ·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ·]·Ε·[···· - - - ]
- 2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
ος
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ζ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
ε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ξ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ανδρ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
Apparatus
l. 1, probably from a name, possibly of a Roman citizen (e.g. Ἰούλιος), although it cannot be excluded that we should read Π instead of Ι.
l. 2, perhaps from Alexandros, or a related name; but Ξ could be Τ, Ε.
Translation:
] [...]ius [...] [A]lex[andros?] [...]
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
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