15.331. Funerary fragment
- Description:
- Badly damaged right end of a white marble garland sarcophagus,showing part of a garland upheld at teh corner by a pillar and a kneeling putto, who probably upheld a central tabella to the left. For further description see Isik 95.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face to the left of the putto and below the tabella. The inscription probably began in the tabella.
- Letters:
- Well-designed and cut, in the second-to-fourth-century style.
- Date:
- Perhaps first half of the third century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Unknown
- Original Location:
- Necropolis (unknown)
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Isik.
- Bibliography:
- Reynolds and Isik 95, with photograph.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcribed from the photograph (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [···? ]Α̣ΤΙΑΧ̣ΟΥ
- 1[···]·ΤΙΑ·ΟΥ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Α
</unclear>
ΤΙΑ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Χ
</unclear>
ΟΥ
</ab>
Translation:
No translation possible
Commentary:
If as seems probable this comes from the end of the text, it should be from the date, perhaps from the name of the stephanephoros, although I know no name with this ending.
- Photographs:
- none.
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