14.4. Funerary inscription for Aimilia Meltine wife of Alexandros
- Description:
- Large sarcophagus lid (W. 1.05 × H. 0.62 × D. 0.65).
- Text:
- l. 1 inscribed along the rim of the lid; l. 2 on the surviving projection.
- Letters:
- Not measured.
- Date:
- .I-IV (lettering)
- Findspot:
- in a well in the centre of Karaçasu in 1925; not rediscovered. All inscriptions found in Karaçasu may reasonably be taken to have originated in Aphrodisias
- Original Location:
- Unknown cemetery
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1927)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by A. Salač in 1925; not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by A. Salač, BCH 51, 1927, p. 396, no. 22, whence SEG 4.400, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 414.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 ἡ σορός ἐστὶν Αἰμιλίας Μελτίνης τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου ΤΟ[·· ? ··]
- 2 vacat ζ vacat [ῆ vacat ]
- 1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΑΙΜΙΛΙΑΣΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΣΤΗΣΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟ[ - - - ]
- 2 Ζ [· ····················]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
ἡ
σορός
ἐστὶν
Αἰμιλίας
Μελτίνης
τῆς
Ἀλεξάνδρου
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
το
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<space
extent="20"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ζ
<space
extent="20"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ῆ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</ab>
<space
extent="20"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</supplied>
Apparatus
l. 1, the last two surviving letters may be from the article το[ῦ] or the first two of a patronymic.
l. 2, the Ζ is cut on a projection such as commonly features on sarcophagus lids, and will have been completed on a second projection.
Translation:
The sarcophagus belongs to Aimilia Meltine (wife) of Alexandros son of [·· ? ··]
She lives.
Commentary:
Neither of the persons are otherwise known.
Photographs:
- Face (Salač 1927)
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