Funerary fragment for [...] and wife
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Perhaps late second century A.D
language: en; grc
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[...]τι καὶ μέλι μοὶ [...] [...] κείμενον τὸν [...] [...] γυναικὶ καὶ τέκνοις [...]

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In line 1 the purpose of the stops is unclear; if they mark breaks between sentences we have the end of one of which too little survivies for interprettion, and the whole of another which should mean 'and it is a care for me'; but if they are decorative only we could read τί at the beginning, and translate 'and why does it (should it) trouble me', in accord with funerary texts which urge that life is to be enjoyed and death is not upsetting.

Line 2 possibly refers to the male owner of the tomb, and line 3 to his provision of it for a wife and children.

[...] Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.22)

[...] 15.328.