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Unpublished.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>
<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" />
</ab>

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:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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