11.307. Funerary verse
- Description:
- White marble building block without moulding (W. 0.948 × H. 0.27 × D. 0.36), broken below and at the right end; surface damaged at lower left corner.
- Text:
- Lightly inscribed on a roughly dressed surface, worn all over. The text certainly began on a block above.
- Letters:
- Non-monumental, hand designed eithout ruler or compass; cursive sigma, epsilon, omega, ?II cent.; 0.015-2.0.
- Date:
- Second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, South-east: in spoils dump to the East of the South Agora, Agora Gate
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.2)
- Bibliography:
- Published by R.R..R. Smith, 'Aphrodisias 1992', KST XV-2 (1994), 355, whence BullEp 1996.385.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2 v. τῶν ἀρετῶν πολ̣λὸν ἐπαυρόμενην̣ [·· ? ·· κ]αὶ ̣[δέ] -
- 3 v. μας ἐνθάδε κεῖται ἐπὶ χθονὸς αὐτὰρ ὁ θυ̣[μος]
- 4 ἔδραμεν ἐς μάκ̣αρας πολλον ἀ̣γαλλόμενο̣[ς ·· ? ··]
- 5[··] Γ̣ΕΔΥ̣Ε μυρόμενον ποθινὸν πόσιν ΗΛ̣Λ̣ΡΑΤΕ. [··]
- 6[··]ΝΑΕω̣Τ [·] ΤΙ̣ χρόνων τετράτ̣ης οὐκ̣ ἐ̣ν̣έβ̣η Λ̣ [··]
- 7[·· ? ··]ΟΝ [·] Λ̣Ι̣Ν̣[·· ? ··]
- 1·· ? ··]
- 2 ΤΩΝΑΡΕΤΩΝΠΟ·ΛΟΝΕΠΑΥΡΟΜΕΝΗ·[ - - - ·]ΑΙ[··]
- 3 ΜΑΣΕΝΘΑΔΕΚΕΙΤΑΙΕΠΙΧΘΟΝΟΣΑΥΤΑΡΟΘ·[···]
- 4ΕΔΡΑΜΕΝΕΣΜΑ·ΑΡΑΣΠΟΛΛΟΝ·ΓΑΛΛΟΜΕΝ·[· - - - ]
- 5[··]·ΕΔ·ΕΜΥΡΟΜΕΝΟΝΠΟΘΙΝΟΝΠΟΣΙΝΗ··ΡΑΤΕ[··]
- 6[··]ΝΑΕ·Τ[·]Τ·ΧΡΟΝΩΝΤΕΤΡΑ·ΗΣΟΥ···Ε·Η·[··]
- 7[ - - - ]ΟΝ[·]···[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
τῶν
ἀρετῶν
πο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
λὸν
ἐπαυρόμενη
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ν
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
κ
</supplied>
αὶ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δέ
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
μας
ἐνθάδε
κεῖται
ἐπὶ
χθονὸς
αὐτὰρ
ὁ
θ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
υ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μος
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
ἔδραμεν
ἐς
μά
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
αρας
πολλον
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἀ
</unclear>
γαλλόμεν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Γ
</unclear>
ΕΔ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Υ
</unclear>
Ε
μυρόμενον
ποθινὸν
πόσιν
Η
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ΛΛ
</unclear>
ΡΑΤΕ.
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
ΝΑΕ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ω
</unclear>
Τ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
Τ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ι
</unclear>
χρόνων
τετρά
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ης
οὐ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἐν
</unclear>
έ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
β
</unclear>
η
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Λ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
ΟΝ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ΛΙΝ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Apparatus
l. 3? ἀγαλλόμενο[ς]?
The metre suggests that the opening line is not the first (it seems to be a pentameter) the text presumably started on a block above
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
- Commentary:
- No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
- Face (1992)
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