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Unpublished.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>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ος
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ζ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</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" />
</ab>

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:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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