15.316. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- White marble sarcophagus fragment with lower edge surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line on a prepared face.
- Letters:
- standard forms
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Stray
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 32)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ··]Ι̣ εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλά[κιον ·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]·ΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑ[···· - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ι
</unclear>
εἰς
τὸ
χρεοφυλά
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
κιον
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
[ . . . deposited] in the property-archive [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Probably from the closing formula of a funerary imprecation, recording that the penalty was deposited in the property-archive.
Photographs:
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