158. Funerary verse, for Macedonius

Monument: Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a rectangular white marble slab (0.27 × 0.265 × 0.03).
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is polished, and has been prepared with a lightly-cut grid, within which the letters are cut, one letter in each square.
Letters: Irregular but clear, av. 0.025; epsilon is both lunate (ll. 2, 3) and square (ll. 4, 5). Two dots for stop, 1.4.
Date: Fifth or sixth century (content, metre).

Here [lies] Mace[donius...] life [...] ?of men [...].

5: [τ]ελέθω cj. Feissel (1991), 376.

Face (1985)

See discussion at IX.23, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985.
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 158 and plate xxxvi whence PHI 736.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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