Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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157. Funerary verse, for Euphemia
Description
- Monument:
A plain white marble block (0.235 × 0.40 × 0.56), on the face of which a tabella
ansata has been incised. The face is fairly worn.
- Text:
The date, a, is written above the tabella and
down the right side, which is worn; the main text, b, is
written within the tabella, with each line of verse separated
by an incised line.
- Letters:
Av. 0.02;
irregular.
- Date:
AD 543 or AD 558 (indiction, emperor).
Text
| a |
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βασιλεύοντος Ἰουστινιανοῦ
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ἰν- |
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δ(ικτίωνος)
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ζ´
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| 5 |
μη(νὸς)
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α̣ |
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π̣ο
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[...]
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ι̣κ̣
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| b |
| |
ἐνθάδε τὴν ἱερὰν κεφαλὴν γαῖα καλύπτει | |
| |
κούρης ᾗ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐπώνυμον
| οὔνομα κεῖτο· |
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| |
μήτιος εὐφήμοιο καὶ οὐκ ἑ
|(5)τέρ' ἔπλετο φήμης |
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εὐφυέος πινυτοῖσιν ἐφ' ἔρ|γμασιν αἰὲν ἐοῦσα· | |
| 5 |
ἀλλὰ θεῶν μακάρων Εὐφημία
| ἐς χορὸν ἥκοις. |
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(10) ἐπλήρωσεν τὸν βίον Εὐφημία
| ἐτῶν ιη´ ἰνδ̣(ικτίωνος) [ζ´ ...] μ̣η̣(νὸς) α̣
|
Translation
a. In the reign of
Justinian, the seventh indiction, the first month [...]
b. Here earth covers the
sacred head of a girl who, before, had an appropriate name. She was of
well-famed skill and similarly of a seemly reputation, being always
(engaged) in prudent labours. But, Euphemia, may you come to the choir
of the blessed gods. Euphemia completed her life at 18 years, in the
[seventh] indiction [...] the first month.
Apparatus
a. It is not certain whether there are any
significant traces after l.6.
b. In l.11 the missing area may well have been an
original fault, since the surviving letters convey all the information
that we would expect.
Photographs
Representations
Commentary
See discussion at IX.22, and,
for verse inscriptions, IX.15.
Locations
- Found:
Stray find.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1966.
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
no. 157 and plate xxxvii, whence PHI 732,
Steinepigramme 02/09/29.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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