153. Funerary verse, for Claudia

Description

Monument: A plain white marble block without moulding (0.46 x 0.355 x 0.19). Face a broken at right side; b broken on left side and below.
Text: Inscribed on two opposite faces.
Letters: 0.025-0.035; clear, lunate.
Date: Fourth-sixth century (content, metre).

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a
	cross ἀντὶ φιλοξενίη[ς] \| τε καὶ εὐσεβέων \| χάριν ἔργων \|
	Κλαυδίη οἰχομ[έ]\|(5)νων σε Δίκη κυ[δή]\|νατο τύμβῳ \|
	κουριδίωι καθ[α]\|ρὸν δὲ δέμας [συμ]\|μεῖξεν ἀκοίτ[ῃ]
	\| vacat
b
	[Κλα]υδίη εὐσεβί \|[αισ]ιν ἀειμνής \|[τ]οισι κομῶσα \|
	[ο]ὐρανὸν εἰσανό \|(5)[ρ]ουσε , δέμας δέ οἱ \| [ἐ]νθάδε Μοίρη \|
	κουριδίωι ξυνάρη \|[ρε κ]αὶ οἰχομένης \| [ σὺν ] ἀκοίτῃ \|
	(10) [τύμβ]ῳ ὑπ ' εὐαγε\|[...]

Translation

a. In repayment for hospitality, and in thanks for pious works, Claudia, Justice has honoured you with (the) tomb of the dead, and has wedded your pure body (with it as a) lawful husband.

b. Claudia, who abounded in acts of piety which will ever be remembered, has rushed up to heaven, but Fate here below has joined her body, even after death, with a wedded husband, ?a tomb, ?by the pure . . .

Apparatus

a. v.2: κυ[δή]νατο is far from certain; although the verb is used in epigrams in this kind of construction, I know of no parallel for its use in the middle voice.

b. v.4. [τύμβ]ῳ, while tempting, is not a certain restoration.

Photographs

a: Face (1977) b: Face (1977)

Commentary

See discussion at IX.18, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Locations

Found: A stray find.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Brought by village children to the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.210).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 153.a and b and plate xxxvi (a only), whence PHI 734, 735 Steinepigramme 02/09/28.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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