Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.293. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the left side of a white marble block with moulding (no measurements).

Text: Inscribed on front face of upper moulding.

Letters: Standard second to third century forms; no measurements

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1992)

Interpretive

[------]
ὁ πλάτ̣[ας ---]
ΜΕΝΑ[---]
ΑΝΟΥ[---]
ΜΕΝΑ[---]
5ΟΔΟΥ[---]
( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

[------]
ΟΠΛΑ.[..---]
ΜΕΝΑ[---]
ΑΝΟΥ[---]
ΜΕΝΑ[---]
5ΟΔΟΥ[---]
      

Apparatus

1: after Α there is the seriph of an upper cross-bar (Τ, Γ, Ε, Σ)

Translation

The tomb [---]

Commentary

The reference to the tomb begins a formulaic funerary text; the surviving elements below include the name Menandros, and probably other names in a genealogy.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 ( 92.d)

Publication: IAph2007 15.293.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1992)