173. Epitaph of Nicolaus

Description

Monument: A large white marble slab (0.90 × 1.10 × 0.16) broken either end; the right end has been further broken since 1893.
Text: Inscribed across the centre of the face.
Letters: 0.03-0.07; abbreviations: last letter above line, and apostrophe.
Date: Tenth century or later (lettering).

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[ἐν]ταῦθ(α) κεῖτ(αι) τὸ λείμψανον stop Νικολά[.](ου)

Translation

Here lie the remains of Nicolaus.

Apparatus

The last letter was read by Kubitschek, but is not now visible. As it was written above the line, and with an apostrophe, it is presumably an abbreviation of Νικολά(ου) rather than Νικόλα read by Cormack.

Photographs

Face (1980)

Representations

Transcription by Kubitschek (1893), notebook 3, p. 22

Commentary

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

Locations

Found: , 'W(estlich) von der Säulenruine' (Kubitschek); Agora Gate, during clearing (NYU).
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Copied by Kubitschek (K.III.22, Abklatsch viii); recorded by the NYU expedition in 1980.
Bibliography: Published by Cormack, in ABSA 59 (1964), 11, from Kubitschek, whence L. Robert, AC. 1966, 281 n. 3; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 173 and plate xxix; not in PHI.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcription (Roueché).

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