161. ?Fragment of funerary verse

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

Description

• Monument: Fragment from a white marble plaque or a sarcophagus front, with back surviving, but no edges (0.09 × 0.13 × 0.08).
• Text: Inscribed on the face.
• Letters: Av. 0.02; clear, irregular, square.
• Date: Fourth-sixth century or later (lettering. metre).

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Translation

[...]?soul[...].

Photographs

Face (1978)

Commentary

See discussion at IX.25, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Locations

• Found: Stray find.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.151).
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 161 whence PHI 741.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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