KI014+KI025 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Christian Greek Epitaph) [permalink]
Type
Inventoried Object
Technique
Several pieces of slab have thin film of gray, medium-coarse mortar splashed on back. Letters are broadly and shallowly cut but their scale varies, and they drift drastically in lettering plane mostly to upper right.
Writing transcription
[+] κοιμ[η-]|τ̣ή̣ριον | Ἰωά[ννου] | κου[ρέωϲ +]
Logical part of
Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects
Typological identification
Inscription (stone)
Conservation
2008 (July 5): mended two fragments using Acryloid B-72 in acetone solution (Nikol Anastasatou).
Preservation description
Six joining fragments from rectangular to trapezoidal plaque preserve part of four lines of Greek text, top margin, and left margin; one more fragment from back joins. These represent top of thin slab that shattered into several small pieces, fracturing both through plane of face and across face in thin cracks. Slight, sparse abrasion and pitting; slight, extensive encrustation.
Published as
Rife2022e, pp. 1196-1197, 1204, 1206-1207, no. 919, fig. 25.4
Left margin width
0.032
Left margin width
0.038
Preserved length
0.178
Preserved width
0.201
Thickness
0.018
Top margin height
0.019
Top margin height
0.022
Associated with Burial Context
Koutsongila Grave 41
Chronology comment
Late Roman-Early Byzantine (6th-7th century). Dated by context, contents, paleography, material.
Belongs to Historical Period
Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
Belongs to Historical Period
Late Roman (Historical Period)
Material
Bluish Gray Schistose Marble (Material)