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155. Funerary verse, for Stephanus

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: A white marble plaque (0.295 × 0.53 × 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/sixth century (lettering, metre).

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     cross σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν | ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις |
     εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά |κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα |
     (5) ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο | τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα cross

Translation

This is the grave of Stephanus, 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.

Photographs

Face (1980)
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Commentary

See discussion at IX.20, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Locations

  • Found: Fields: at Palamucuk, north of Aphrodisias.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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