Funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...] pl. LXXVIII (printed as LXXIX) and Letronne p. 402 whence [...], 5208; [...], 19 copy by M.Guirand (1895) mentioned; [...], 483 (7), pl. XCII, fig. 71 (only partially legible), whence [...] 9.370, [...] 324219; see also [...]

ἔτους θ [...] Σήσ τιος Κά ρπος καὶ Σηστία Λυχνίς ἐποίησαν ἑατο ῖς καὶ τοῖς ἰδί οις τέκνοιϲ

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: θ [Not reported by other editors.]]

[^a2: at 1: Σηστία Λυχνίς | ΣΤΙΑΛΥΥΝΙΣ]

Translations

Sestio Carpo e Sestia Lichnìs fecero per sè e per i propri figli

Year 9, Sestios Karpos and Sestia Lychnis made this for themselves and their own children.

Commentary

Line 1: There is room for a praenomen and damage to the stone here which may have destroyed it.

Line 2: The original text ended with 'for their own'; 'children' was then added in a later hand.