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155. Funerary verse, for Stephanus
Description
- Monument:
A white marble plaque (0.295 × 0.53 × 0.04), with the back left rough; chipped at
upper and lower edges.
- Text:
Inscribed on the face; the initial Σ of Στέφανος was cut above the
line.
- Letters:
Av. 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
Fifth/sixth century (lettering, metre).
Text
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cross σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν
| ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις |
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εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά
|κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα |
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(5) ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο
| τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα cross
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Translation
This is the grave of Stephanus, whom you hear among the
living to have been a servant of piety, a gentle man; in the prime of
life the doom of disease snatched him away.
Photographs
Commentary
See discussion at IX.20, and,
for verse inscriptions, IX.15.
Locations
- Found:
Fields: at Palamucuk, north of Aphrodisias.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Found by the NYU expedition during survey work in
1979/80.
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
no. 155 and plate xxxviii, whence PHI 737,
Steinepigramme 02/09/31.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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