Description:
Fragment from the top of a white marble panel, perhaps sarcophagus front (W. 0.24 x H. 0.165 D. 0.07) with moulded upper edge surviving.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters:
ll. 1-2, 0.02, ll. 3-4, 0.018
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray find in 1979
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 52)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [··· Δι]ονύσιος Διο[νυσίου ···]
2[·· Μάρκο]υ Αὐρηλίο[υ ···]
3[··· οὐδεὶς] ἕξει ἐξ[ουσίαν ···]
4[·· π]οιήσα[ς ἔσται ἀσεβὴς κτλ · ···]
5[···]
1[·····]ΟΝΥΣΙΟΣΔΙΟ[·········]
2[·······]ΥΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ[····]
3[·········]ΕΞΕΙΕΞ[······ ···]
4[···]ΟΙΗΣΑ[· ··············· ····]
5[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Δι
</supplied>
ονύσιος
Διο
<supplied reason="lost" >
νυσίου
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Μάρκο
</supplied>
υ
Αὐρηλίο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
οὐδεὶς
</supplied>
ἕξει
ἐξ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ουσίαν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
π
</supplied>
οιήσα
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἔσται
ἀσεβὴς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
κτλ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Mentions of Dionysios ?son of Dionysios; of [ Marc]us Aurelius [-]; of funerary prohibition

Photographs:

Face(1980)
 Face(1980)

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