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162. Funerary verse for Arcimus

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


Description

  • Monument: A white marble panel (0.43 × 0.33 × 0.05), chipped at sides and broken at upper left corner.
  • Text: Inscribed on the face.
  • Letters: Clear, irregular. av. 0.04.
  • Date: Fifth-sixth century (lettering, metre).

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     [?κὲ ἐ]ν ἔργοις | κὲ ἐν πᾶσι τι|μητὸν βίον | κατέλιπεν
Ἄρκιμος ὁ Δα-
  μοχάριδος
  leaf

Translation

He left a life distinguished [?both] in works and in all things, Arcimus son of Damocharis.

Apparatus

l. 2/3: τιμῇ τὸν ALA; τιμητὸν Feissel (1991).

Photographs

Face (1977)
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Commentary

The first four lines are in verse. See discussion at IX.26, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Locations

  • Found: North Odeon: in the top soil.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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