7.4. Funerary inscription for Elpides
- Description:
- White marble block (W. 0.38 × H. 0.17 × D. 0.26).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.045
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Martyrion, apparently re-used in the inner narthex wall
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by K&R (no notebook entry); by Gaudin (165); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 288-289, no 188, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 471.
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; Gaudin's squeeze (red book 45v); Preliminary transcription (Reynolds). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Ἔλπιδες[?·· ? ··]
- 2Εἰδαίου[?·· ? ··]
- 2a[?·· ? ··
- 1ΕΛΠΙΔΕΣ[? - - - ]
- 2ΕΙΔΑΙΟΥ[? - - - ]
- 2a[?·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἔλπιδες
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
id="gap01"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Εἰδαίου
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
id="gap02"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
id="gap03"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Elpides [... ? ...] (?son of) Eidaios [?...]
Commentary:
Reinach suggested tentatively that this might be funerary.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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