Description:
Fragment from a white marble sarcophagus. Copied from an incomplete squeeze; not seen in 1980. No edges evident (W. 0.52 x H. 0.17)
Text:
Inscribed above (ll.1-2) and below a moulding
Letters:
standard forms; 0.015
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Stray in 1979/80
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (Museum 56)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Squeeze (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
1 [···]
2[···]Ο̣ [·]Ι̣Α̣Ι̣Ι̣Κ̣Μ̣Α̣Υ̣Ι̣[··]Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣[···]
3[···]ΤΟΥ κειμένη εἰς ΤΟ [·]ΝΠ[···]
4[··· Ζή]νωνος καὶ Ζήνων [···]
5[··· Πο]λ̣υ̣χ̣[ρ]ο̣νιος Τ[···]
6[···]
1[···]
2[···]·[·]·········[··]···[···]
3[···]ΤΟΥΚΕΙΜΕΝΗΕΙΣΤΟ[·]ΝΠ[···]
4[·····]ΝΩΝΟΣΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝ[···]
5[·····]···[·]·ΝΙΟΣΤ[···]
6[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ο
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΑΙΙΚΜΑΥΙ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ΙΙΟ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
ΤΟΥ
κειμένη
εἰς
ΤΟ
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
ΝΠ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ζή
</supplied>
νωνος
καὶ
Ζήνων
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Πο
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
λυχ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
νιος
Τ
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

Elements of a funerary formula, with names - Zenon, twice, and Polychronios

Photographs:
none.

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