Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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54. Funerary verse, for Asclepiodotus

Description

• Monument: A white marble monument, cut in one piece, in the form of a pyramid surmounting a rectangular base (0.95 × 0.50 × 0.50); all four sides of the pyramid and of the base are cut as panels within moulding. The top of the pyramid is broken away, but there are traces of a hole which would have held an insertion at the apex.
• Text: Line 1 is inscribed on the front panel of the pyramid, lines 2-3 within the front panel of the base.
• Letters: 0034.045; clear cut and irregular; apostrophes in lines 3 and 6.
• Date: Late fifth century (prosopography).

Text

Translation

He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in Olympus Asclepiodotus is among the stars—he who also built many splendid things for his motherland [...]

Apparatus

The monument appears to be complete below; it must be assumed that it originally stood on another feature on which the last line of the epigram was inscribed.

l.8. ΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ, corrected by Cormack and Robert.

Photographs

Face (1980)	Face (1980)	Left side (2004)	Right side (2004)	Top (2004)

Commentary

For Asclepiodotus see also 53; see discussion at V.8.

For the funerary epigram see discussion at IX.15, IX.19.

Locations

• Found: Village: reused supporting a pillar of a verandah, in a house subsequently demolished.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1979.
• Bibliography: Published from the MAMA records by •Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 487, whence Hellenica 13, 170-171, BE 1966.399; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 54 and plate xiii, whence PHI 731, Steinepigramme 02/09/06.
• Text constituted from: Publications; transcription (Roueché).

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