15.301. Funerary fragment; stray and undated
- Description:
- Fragment of white marble from an upper moulding (W. 0.28 × H. 0.24 × D. 0.22).
- Text:
- Inscribed below moulding.
- Letters:
- 0.015
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Stray in 1970
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.236)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ·· ?τὴν σορ]ὸν κατεσκ̣[εύασεν ·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]Π[···]Μ̣Λ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2a[·· ? ··
- 1[ - - - ······]ΟΝΚΑΤΕΣ·[······ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]Π[···]··[ - - - ]
- 2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
τὴν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
σορ
</supplied>
ὸν
κατεσ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εύασεν
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
π
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
μλ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] prepared the sarcophagus [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
For an example of this kind of formula in a funerary text, see index s.v. κατασκευάζω.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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