Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004


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157. Funerary verse, for Euphemia

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Text

a
βασιλεύοντος Ἰουστινιανοῦ
ἰν-
δ(ικτίωνος)
ζ´
5 μη(νὸς)
α̣
π̣ο
[...]
ι̣κ̣
b
     ἐνθάδε τὴν ἱερὰν κεφαλὴν γαῖα καλύπτει |
     κούρης ᾗ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐπώνυμον | οὔνομα κεῖτο· |
     μήτιος εὐφήμοιο καὶ οὐκ ἑ |(5)τέρ' ἔπλετο φήμης |
     εὐφυέος πινυτοῖσιν ἐφ' ἔρ|γμασιν αἰὲν ἐοῦσα· |
5 ἀλλὰ θεῶν μακάρων Εὐφημία | ἐς χορὸν ἥκοις. |
     (10) ἐπλήρωσεν τὸν βίον Εὐφημία | ἐτῶν ιη´ ἰνδ̣(ικτίωνος) [ζ´ ...] μ̣η̣(νὸς) α̣

Translation

a. In the reign of Justinian, the seventh indiction, the first month [...]

b. Here earth covers the sacred head of a girl who, before, had an appropriate name. She was of well-famed skill and similarly of a seemly reputation, being always (engaged) in prudent labours. But, Euphemia, may you come to the choir of the blessed gods. Euphemia completed her life at 18 years, in the [seventh] indiction [...] the first month.

Apparatus

a. It is not certain whether there are any significant traces after l.6.

b. In l.11 the missing area may well have been an original fault, since the surviving letters convey all the information that we would expect.

Photographs

Face (1973)
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Representations

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Commentary

See discussion at IX.22, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

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