Description:
Fragment (W. 0.17 × H. 0.19 × D. 0.13) from the right side of a white marble statue base.
Text:
Originally inscribed within a moulded panel (surviving inscribed area W. 0.17 × H. 0.16).
Letters:
Standard second to third century forms; ave. 0.018.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1985)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1983 (83.175)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
0·· ? ··]
1[·· ? ··]ΟΕ̣
2[·· ? ··]ΕΛ
3[·· ? ··]Ι̣ καὶ
4[·· ? ··]Ν ἀποβ-
5[·· ? ··] Ω̣ΝΠΡΩ
6[·· ? ··] καὶ Τ[·]
6a[·· ? ··
0·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]Ο·
2[ - - - ]ΕΛ
3[ - - - ]·ΚΑΙ
4[ - - - ]ΝΑΠΟΒ
5[ - - - ]·ΝΠΡΩ
6[ - - - ]ΚΑΙΤ[·]
6a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="top" />
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ελ
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
καὶ
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ν
</orig>
ἀποβ
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ω
</unclear>
νπρω
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
καὶ
<orig n="unresolved" >
τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<lb n="6a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Perhaps elements of honorific formulae.

Photographs:

Face (1985)
 Face (1985)

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