172. Epitaph of Eutychia

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History

Description

• Monument: White marble panel, broken below (0.44 × 0.21 × 0.03).
• Text: Inscribed on the face.
• Letters: Poor and unevenly aligned, av. 0.02; from l. 7 the lightly scratched draft which the cutter often failed to follow at all exactly can be seen at many points, enabling us to correct some errors. Cursive forms. In ll. 2 and 4 the crossbar of epsilon is omitted. ΚΕ in l.12.
• Date: Fifth/sixth century or later (content, lettering).

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Translation

Here lies Eutychia. who was ?a mother/nurse, and of good repute, with her children. Lord remember her, Lord.

Apparatus

l. 6. Misprinted as εὐπε- in ALA.

l. 10. Draft as given, but the mason only cut ΚΥΙΕ.

l. 12. Draft as given, but the mason cut Υ^v.ΤΗΣ.

Photographs

Face (1985)

Commentary

See discussion at IX.44, and for the phrasing, IX.39.

Locations

• Found: Stray find.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1984.
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias 172, whence PHI 747.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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