Fragmentary building inscription
created: Transcription from fragments and from photograph (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 75 p. 260, fig. 65, whence [...], 1964.562.

Κλαυδία [...]αναν [...] Λόνγου [...]ολον [...]τὴν σκούτλωσιν [...] οἱ κληρονόμοι [...] σὺν τῷ ἐδάφι.

Apparatus

[^a1: at 5-6: κληρο|[νομ-...] [conjectured by P-C.]]

Translation

[?Klau]dia [ . . . ] of Longos, [ . . . ?gave ] the panelling [ . . . ?the work was completed by] the heirs, with the flooring.

Commentary

Line 2: Perhaps a feminine name of Libyan origin.

Line 3: Presumably cognomen of the donor's father or husband.

Line 4 Either ὅλον or perhaps from a word indicating the construction decorated, eg. Θόλον, περίβολον.

Line 5: For σκουτλῶσις and similar forms involving translitteration into Greek from words on the latin root of scutula, see Robert, Hellenica XI-XII, 52 and references there; Robert concluded that it means a veneer or stucco application to a wall (not to a floor as the dictionaries claim) which may be painted. As he observes, in this case the plaque bearing the inscription is part of the work.

Line 6: The donor's heirs presumably executed his or her testamentary instructions and added the marble floor paving indicated by ἔδαφος.