Description:
Upper left corner of a sarcophagus front (W. 0.325 x H. 0.27 x D. 0.24) with moulding a seated lion above.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.02
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Stray in 1970
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1970)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.560)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 ἡ σορὸς καὶ ἰσ[?ώστη ·· ? ··] [?Αὐρη]-
2λίου ΕΡ̣Α̣ΤΤ̣[···]
2a[·· ? ··
1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΙΣ[···· - - - ][····]
2ΛΙΟΥΕ··Τ·[···]
2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
σορὸς
καὶ
ἰσ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ώστη
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Αὐρη
</supplied>
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
λίου
<orig n="unresolved" >
ε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρα
</unclear>
τ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, there was perhaps a reference to the εἰσωσται (ἰσωσται) but one would have expected the article before it; the opening of the owner's name in the genitive case ended the line, and the beginning of l. 2 suggests that he was a Roman citizen and, given the likely date, with the nomen Aurelius (though this cannot be certain).

Translation:

The sarcophagus and the burial [places are the property of [?Aure]lius Erat[·· ? ··]

Commentary:
no comment.
Photographs:
none.

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