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A.65. Funerary inscription

Description: Rock-cut tomb.
Text: Inscribed on the façade to the left of the door.
Letters: Apparently of the imperial period; lunate epsilon, sigma and cursive omega.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Apollonia: Probably the West Necropolis. Recorded in 1904, precise findspot not stated.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1904).

Interpretive

[.. ? ..]Ι̣
Ι̣ΕΡΑΠ
Ἀρι<μ>α-
ν̣ Ἀρι<μ>-
5άντ-
οϲ ἐτ-
ῶν [---]

Diplomatic

[.. ? ..].
.ΕΡΑΠ
ΑΡΙΑ
.ΑΡΙ
5ΑΝΤ
ΟϹΕΤ
ΩΝ[---]

Apparatus

Ἱερὰ Π/αριανά/ ? Ἀρί/ανθ/οϲ ἐτ/ῶν [ . . . Van Buren, 1908 ; Preisigke suggested Παρινά and Ἀρίαντοϲ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . ]?Ariman (scil. son) of Ariman, aged [ . . .

Commentary

Van Buren's reconstruction is not convincing; possibly lines 1/2 contained a date, followed by local names.

Bibliography: Van Buren, 1908, 38, whence Sammelbuch, I.226, Reynolds, 1976, 87, whence SEG 27.1157.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

None available (2020).