Description:
A white marble funerary stele, cut in one piece, in the form of a pyramid surmounting a rectangular base (W. 0.95 × H. 0.50 × D. 0.50); all four sides of the pyramid and of the base are cut as panels within moulding. The top of the pyramid is broken away, but there are traces of a hole which would have held an insertion at the apex.
Text:
Line 1 is inscribed on the front panel of the pyramid, lines 2-3 within the front panel of the base.
Letters:
0034.045; clear cut and irregular; apostrophes in lines 3 and 6.
Date:
Late fifth century (prosopography).
Findspot:
City, Village: reused supporting a pillar of a verandah, in a house subsequently demolished.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1994)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.12).
Bibliography:
Published from the MAMA records by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 487, whence Hellenica 13, 170-171, BE 1966.399; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 54 and plate xiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 731, Steinepigramme 02/09/06.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché), publications This edition Roueché (2007).
1[ο]ὐ̣ θά |νεν οὐ |δ' Ἀχέ | ροντος | (5) ἴδεν ῥό |ον, ἀλλ' ἐ |ν Ὀλύμπωι |
2   Ἀσκληπιόδο | τος τείρε⌜σ⌝ι | (10) συνφέρετε |
3οὗτος ὅτις | δώμησε καὶ | ἀγλαὰ πολ |λὰ τιθήνηι |
   [·· ? ··
1[·]·ΘΑ
2ΝΕΝΟΥ
3Δ'ΑΧΕ
4ΡΟΝΤΟΣ
5ΙΔΕΝΡΟ
6ΟΝΑΛΛ'Ε
7ΝΟΛΥΜΠΩΙ
8ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΟ
9ΤΟΣΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ
10ΣΥΝΦΕΡΕΤΕ
11ΟΥΤΟΣΟΤΙΣ
12ΔΩΜΗΣΕΚΑΙ
13ΑΓΛΑΑΠΟΛ
14ΛΑΤΙΘΗΝΗΙ
14a[·· ? ··
<lg>
<lb n="1" />
<l n="1" met="hexameter" >
<supplied reason="lost" >
ο
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
θά
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
νεν
οὐ
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
δ'
Ἀχέ
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
ροντος
<lb n="5" />
ἴδεν
ῥό
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
ον
,
ἀλλ'
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
ν
Ὀλύμπωι
</l>
<lb n="8" />
<l n="2" met="pentameter" >
Ἀσκληπιόδο
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
τος
τείρε
<choice> type="correction"
<sic >
ε
</sic>
<corr>
σ
</corr>
</choice>
ι
<lb n="10" />
συνφέρετε
</l>
<lb n="11" />
<l n="3" met="hexameter" >
οὗτος
ὅτις
<lb n="12" />
δώμησε
καὶ
<lb n="13" />
ἀγλαὰ
πολ
<lb n="14" type="worddiv" />
λὰ
τιθήνηι
</l>
<lb n="14a" />
<l met="pentameter" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</l>
</lg>

Apparatus

The monument appears to be complete below; it must be assumed that it originally stood on another feature on which the last line of the epigram was inscribed.

l. 9, ΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ, corrected by Cormack and Robert.

Translation:

He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in Olympus Asklepiodotos is among the stars—he who also built many splendid things for his motherland [·· ? ··

Commentary:

See 11.68, and discussion at ala2004 V.8.

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)
Face (1980)
 Face (1980)
Left side (2004)
 Left
side (2004)
Right side (2004)
 Right side
(2004)
Top (2004)
 Top (2004)

(cc) You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 5 to validate this file.)