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Unpublished.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>
<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" >
μλ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

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)
 Face (1977)

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