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A.42. Funerary? list

Description: Sandstone block (w: 0.41 x h: 0.60), depth not measurable.
Text: Inscribed on the exposed face whose upper right corner has been smoothed, probably in order to facilitate reuse.
Letters: First century BCE - first century CE, 0.03; written vertically. The letters are too well cut to suggest graffiti.

Date: First century BCE - first century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: West Church, reused in the paving; found in 1959.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot, 2008.

Interpretive

Διόδοτος
Ἀπο̣[λ]λώνιος
[c. 4]όδοτος
[Καρ]νεάδης

Diplomatic

ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΣ
ΑΠ.[.]ΛΩΝΙΟΣ
[····]ΟΔΟΤΟΣ
[...]ΝΕΑΔΗΣ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Diodotos, Apollonios, [ . 4 ]odotos, [Kar]neades

Commentary

Possibly funerary. The letters are too well cut to suggest graffiti.

For another inscription found here see A.19.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 51 and plate LXVIII, whence SEG 27.1151.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)

   Fig. 3. Face (Joyce Reynolds, I. 59)