15.305. Funerary ?verse
- Description:
- Fragment of a block (W. 0.18 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.16) without back or edges.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face, which is in poor condition
- Letters:
- Standard forms; rather lightly cut; 0.01
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Stray in 1972
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.494)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0 ·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ··]Α̣ΚΑ[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]Ε̣ΔΕΜΟ[·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ··]ΩΖ̣ΑΙΝΟ[·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ·· κ]εῖμαι δυ[·· ? ··]
- 5[·· ? ··]ο̣υ σ̣εμν̣[ου·· ? ··]
- 6[·· ? ··]Ν̣Ο̣ΣΟΤ̣[·· ? ··]
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]·ΚΑ[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]·ΔΕΜΟ[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ]Ω·ΑΙΝΟ[ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ·]ΕΙΜΑΙΔΥ[ - - - ]
- 5[ - - - ]·Υ·ΕΜ·[·· - - - ]
- 6[ - - - ]··ΣΟ·[ - - - ]
<ab>
</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"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
κα
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ε
</unclear>
δεμο
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ω
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ζ
</unclear>
αινο
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
κ
</supplied>
εῖμαι
δυ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
υ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
σ
</unclear>
εμ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ν
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ου
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
νο
</unclear>
σο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
τ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Apparatus
l. 2, [?ἔνθ]αδε μο[?ιρα]
l. 3, Ζαινο[?βιος]
l. 5, suggests praise of the life lived.
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
Probably a funerary verse.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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- Face (1977)
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