1.195. ?Fragment of funerary verse
- Description:
- Four joining fragments (together H. 0.23 × W. 0.56 × D. 0.40) from a white marble masonry block with upper and lower surfaces surviving, but with the upper part of the front face broken away; the block is broken at either end.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face; it is likely that the text occupied at least one more adjacent block in a composite monument.
- Letters:
- av. 0.07, omicron 0.055; deep, clear and ornate; lunate.
- Date:
- Fifth/sixth century (content, metre).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: south aisle.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1961.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 159 and plate xxxvii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 740, Steinepigramme 02/09/91.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]Ι̣Κ̣ΛΕ̣Ι̣ΑΝΕΛ̣Ο̣Φ̣[·]ΛΟΜ[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··]ΗΝ φθόνος ἁρπάξ[?ας ·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]··Λ··ΑΝΕ···[·]ΛΟΜ[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]ΗΝΦΘΟΝΟΣΑΡΠΑΞ[·· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ικ
</unclear>
λ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ει
</unclear>
ανε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
λοφ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
λομ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ην
</orig>
φθόνος
ἁρπάξ
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ας
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··]icleia [·· ? ··] ?whom Envy, having snatched away [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.24.
Photographs:
- 3 fragments (1977)
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- All fragments (1978)
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