160. Fragment of funerary verse

Monument: A white marble fragment, apparently of a sarcophagus front, (0.78 x 0.85 x 0.16), broken above and below.
Text: Inscribed a above and b within a tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.03-0.055; irregular.
Date: Fourth century or later.

a
	[...]
	[...]μιοι[...]
	[...]vac.[...]
	[...]vac.[...]
	[...] εν εἰκάδι
5	[... μ]ηνὸς σ vac.
	[...]οντος vac.
b
	\| δυσμενέ\|ων ἀπά\|νευθε , φί\|λων χερ\|(5)σὶν ἑταί\|ρων cross .

a. [...] ?on the twentieth of the month [...]

b. [...] far from enemies, by the hands of dear friends.

a, l.1. Μ might be Α.

There is no indication of how much is missing to either side in ll. 2 ff.

Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 3, p. 16

See discussion at IX.24, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Found: Fields: east of Geyre 'ostl. von Aphrodisias. Acker des Hadji Ibraham = Weinberg' (Kubitschek).
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

Recording: Copied by Kubitschek, 9 June 1983 (K. III, 16, Abklatsch 83); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography: Published by Cormack (1964) 19, 9, and fig. 1, whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 38; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 160.a, whence PHI 757 and b, whence PHI 739, Steinepigramme 02/09/34.
Text constituted from: Kubitschek notebook.

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