13.125. Funerary verse for Eupeithios

Description:
White marble block without moulding or decoration, chipped along all edges and missing the lower right corner (W. 1.14 × H. 0.265 × D. 0.55).
Text:
Inscribed on one face, which is itself chipped approximately in the centre. Line 1 is very close to the upper edge, suggesting a composite monument.
Letters:
Probably second century; well-cut in distinctive non-monumental forms, designed with a ruler and compass and cut with monumental techniques; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; cursive feaures in alpha; ligatures: ΠΝ, l.2, ΗΝ and ΗΜ in l.4; ave. 0.035
Date:
second century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.1)
Bibliography:
Published by R.R..R. Smith, 'Aphrodisias 1992', KST XV-2 (1994), 355, whence BullEp 1996.385; from Reynolds, Steinepigramme 02/09/12, whence SEG 48 1998.1327.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 ἀθανάτοισιν ὅμοια πόρες κλυτὰ ἔργα πόληι scroll vac.
2 ἥρως εὐσεβίης θεοτέρπεος ἔ̣ν̣πνοος εἰκών vac.
3 τοὔνεκα νῦν νάεις Εὐπείθιε καὶ̣ πόλον ἄστρων [ vac. ]
4 ψυχὴν ἀμπνεύσας ὅτε Μαρτίου̣ ἦ̣μ̣α̣ρ̣ ἔπαιζε̣[ς]
5 vac. vac. vac.
1ΑΘΑΝΑΤΟΙΣΙΝΟΜΟΙΑΠΟΡΕΣΚΛΥΤΑΕΡΓΑΠΟΛΗΙ scroll    
2ΗΡΩΣΕΥΣΕΒΙΗΣΘΕΟΤΕΡΠΕΟΣ··ΠΝΟΟΣΕΙΚΩΝ   
3ΤΟΥΝΕΚΑΝΥΝΝΑΕΙΣΕΥΠΕΙΘΙΕΚΑ·ΠΟΛΟΝΑΣΤΡΩΝ[···]
4ΨΥΧΗΝΑΜΠΝΕΥΣΑΣΟΤΕΜΑΡΤΙΟ·····ΕΠΑΙΖ·[·]
5         
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἀθανάτοισιν
ὅμοια
πόρες
κλυτὰ
ἔργα
πόληι
<g type="scroll" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
ἥρως
εὐσεβίης
θεοτέρπεος
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἔν
</unclear>
πνοος
εἰκών
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" />
τοὔνεκα
νῦν
νάεις
Εὐπείθιε
κα
<unclear reason="damage" >
ὶ
</unclear>
πόλον
ἄστρων
<supplied reason="lost" >
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
ψυχὴν
ἀμπνεύσας
ὅτε
Μαρτίο
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἦμαρ
</unclear>
ἔπαιζ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, ΕΡΓ damaged

l. 2, ΕΝΠ damaged

L.3: ΑΙ damaged. Letters: after Κ, the shadow of a triangle (Α, Λ) and then very little space (Ι, Υ, ?Ρ). Perhaps: Εὐπείθι ἑκά̣[ς] πόλον ἄτων

l.4, ΜΑΡ damaged

In principle the text could have begun on an upper block, but these four lines of verse are complete in themselves.

Translation:

No English translation yet (2007)

Commentary:

We have no other Eupeithios so far attested at Aphrodisias in the Roman period, but one (? a sophist) honoured in ? the fourth/fifth century ( 5.120).

It is standard for the pious to be thought of as inhabiting a special and honoured place; here the idea is carried farther, presenting Eupeithios as god-like.

Photographs:

Face (1992)
 Face (1992)
Face (1992)
 Face (1992)

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