15.338. Funerary fragment; stray, undated
- Description:
- Piece perhaps from a ?sarcophagus front with relief ornament (a human figure facing left) in a sunken panel (W. 0.43 × H. 0.27 × D. 0.04).
- Text:
- Inscribed along the upper border.
- Letters:
- lunate epsilon, sigma; 0.04
- Date:
- Third-fourth century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- stray in 1971
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1978)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1971 (71.38)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ··]α̣σας ΜΕΛΙ̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]·ΣΑΣΜΕΛ··[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
α
</unclear>
σας
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
μελ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ιι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
- Commentary:
- no comment.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
-
- Face (1978)
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