15.293. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Fragment from the left side of a white marble ?block with moulding (no measurements).
- Text:
- Inscribed on front face of upper moulding.
- Letters:
- Standard second to third century forms; no measurements
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Unknown
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1992)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.d)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1 ὁ πλάτ̣[ας ·· ? ··]
- 2ΜΕΝΑ[·· ? ··]
- 3ΑΝΟΥ[·· ? ··]
- 4ΜΕΝΑ[·· ? ··]
- 5ΟΔΟΥ[·· ? ··]
- 5a vac.
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1ΟΠΛΑ·[·· - - - ]
- 2ΜΕΝΑ[ - - - ]
- 3ΑΝΟΥ[ - - - ]
- 4ΜΕΝΑ[ - - - ]
- 5ΟΔΟΥ[ - - - ]
- 5a
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
ὁ
πλά
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ας
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
μενα
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ανου
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
μενα
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
οδου
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5a"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Apparatus
l. 1, after Α there is the seriph of an upper cross-bar (Τ, Γ, Ε, Σ)
Translation:
The tomb [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
The reference to the tomb begins a formulaic funerary text; the surviving elements below include the name Menandros, and probably other names in a genealogy.
Photographs:
- Face (1992)
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