KI022 (Early Roman Latin Inscription) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

White to creamy white, medium-fine, semitranslucent, calcite marble. Pentelic.

Technique

Letters are finely cut, sharp and neat, and they appear well aligned and regularly spaced.

Writing transcription

[- - -] R I Ṇ [- - -]

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Inscription (stone)

Preservation description

One small fragment of plaque, broken on all sides, preserves small part of one line of Latin text perhaps along top margin (>0.031). Slight, extensive pitting and gouging; slight, sparse encrustation.

Published as

Rife2022e, pp. 1196, 1200, no. 915, fig. 25.2

Letter height (average)

0.045

Preserved length

0.072

Preserved width

0.102

Thickness

0.031

Top margin height (preserved)

0.031

Chronology comment

Early Roman (1st–early 2nd century). Dated by paleography.

Explanation of deposition

Either residual in burial fill or washed into cist from above, like KI015.

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Roman (Historical Period)

Material

Marble (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus G38-001

Location in unit

Upper fill inside central cist.