2.315. Funerary verse for Arkimos
- Description:
- A white marble plaque (H. 0.43 × W. 0.33 × D. 0.05), chipped at sides and broken at upper left corner.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Clear, irregular. ave. 0.04.
- Date:
- Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre).
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon, North area: in the top soil
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.321).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 162, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 729.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- [?κὲ ἐ]ν̣ ἔργοις | κὲ ἐν πᾶσι τι|μητὸν βίον | κατέλιπεν
- 5Ἄρκιμος ὁ Δα-
- 6μοχάριδος
- 7 leaf
- 1[···]·ΕΡΓΟΙΣ
- 2ΚΕΕΝΠΑΣΙΤΙ
- 3ΜΗΤΟΝΒΙΟΝ
- 4ΚΑΤΕΛΙΠΕΝ
- 5ΑΡΚΙΜΟΣΟΔΑ
- 6ΜΟΧΑΡΙΔΟΣ
- 7 leaf
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κὲ
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ἐ
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ν
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ἔργοις
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κὲ
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μητὸν
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κατέλιπεν
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Ἄρκιμος
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Apparatus
ll. 2-3, τιμῇ τὸν ALA; τιμητὸν Feissel (1991).
Translation:
He left a life distinguished [?both] in works and in all things, Arkimos son of Damocharis.
Commentary:
The first four lines are in verse. See discussion at ala2004 IX.26
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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