Description:
A white marble plaque (H. 0.295 × W. 0.53 × D. 0.04), with the back left rough; chipped at upper and lower edges.
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the initial Σ of Στέφανος was cut above the line.
Letters:
Av. 0.02-0.025.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre).
Findspot:
Neighbouring settlement, Palamuçuk: north of Aphrodisias.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Found by the NYU expedition during survey work in 1979/80.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 155 and plate xxxviii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 737, Steinepigramme 02/09/31.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν | ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις |
2εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά |κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα |
3(5) ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο | τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα cross
1 cross ΣΗΜΑΤΟΔΕΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΙΟΤΟΝ
2ΕΝΖΩΟΙΣΙΝΑΚΟΥΕΙΣ
3ΕΥΣΕΒΙΗΣΓΕΓΑΩΤΑΔΙΑ
4ΚΤΟΡΟΝΗΠΙΟΝΑΝΔΡΑ
5ΑΚΜΗΝΕΣΒΙΟΤΟΙΟ
6ΤΟΝΗΡΠΑΣΕΛΟΙΜΙΟΣΑΙΣΑ cross
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Translation:

This is the grave of Stephanos, whom you hear among the living to have been a servant of piety, a gentle man; in the prime of life the doom of disease snatched him away.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IX.20.

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)

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