15.337. Fragment of funerary formula, stray find, undated.
- Description:
- Fragment of lower moulding from a sarcophagus ?lid (W. 0.25 × H. 0.12 × D. 0.18).
- Text:
- Inscribed on two planes.
- Letters:
- 0.022
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- stray in 1970
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.227)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0 ·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ·· ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος κ]αὶ τυμβωρ[ύχος καὶ ἀποτεισάτω ·· ? ·· ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται]
- 2[·· ? ·· ? vac. ] vv. τοῦ ἐγ[δικήσαντος ·· ? ··]
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ··················]ΑΙΤΥΜΒΩΡ[···· ············· - - - ···············]
- 2[ - - - ···] ΤΟΥΕΓ[·········· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀσεβὴς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐπάρατος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
κ
</supplied>
αὶ
τυμβωρ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ύχος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀποτεισάτω
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὧν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὸ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τρίτον
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἔσται
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</supplied>
<space
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
τοῦ
ἐγ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δικήσαντος
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] tomb-breaker [·· ? ··] of the prosecutor [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
For an example of this kind of formula in a funerary text, see index s.v. τυμβωρύχος, ἐκδικέω.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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