1.184. Funerary for Chrysaphios the chief-doctor
- Description:
- Left side of a white marble block (W. 0.27 × H. 0.40 × D. 0.16)
- Text:
- Inscribed within a roughly incised tabella ansata (die, W. 0.18 × H. 0.16). The surface of the stone is only partly dressed; the left side may have a rebate.
- Letters:
- Roughly cut, 0.04-0.05; lunate sigma, cursive alpha
- Date:
- Unlikely to be earlier than third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: clearing of the apse wall in the north narthex
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.418)
- Bibliography:
- Published from Reynolds by Nutton, PBSR 45, 1977, 193, no. 3, whence SEG 1977.718, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 468 .
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Χρυσ[α]-
- 2φίου ἀ[ρ]-
- 3χιατρο̣[ῦ]
- 1ΧΡΥΣ[·]
- 2ΦΙΟΥΑ[·]
- 3ΧΙΑΤΡ·[·]
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Χρυσ
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α
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φίου
ἀ
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ρ
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type="worddiv"
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χιατρ
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ο
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</ab>
ῦ
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Translation:
(Tomb of) Chrysaphios the chief-doctor.
Commentary:
For Chrysaphius see Zgusts KP no. 1648
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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