Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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158. Funerary verse, for Macedonius
Description
- Monument:
Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a
rectangular white marble slab (0.27 × 0.265 × 0.03).
- Text:
Inscribed on the face, which is polished, and has been
prepared with a lightly-cut grid, within which the letters are cut,
one letter in each square.
- Letters:
Irregular but clear, av. 0.025; epsilon is both lunate (ll. 2, 3)
and square (ll. 4, 5). Two dots for stop, 1.4.
- Date:
Fifth or sixth century (content, metre).
Text
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cross ἔνθα Μακη[δόνιος ...]
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ετται βιοτ[ο...
...]-
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εύσας αρθλ̣[... ?ἀνθρ]-
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ώπων stop ἐμβο[?λ...]
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| 5 |
vac. cross ελεθω̣[...]
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vacat |
Translation
Here [lies] Mace[donius...] life [...] ?of men [...].
Apparatus
5: [τ]ελέθω cj. Feissel
(1991), 376.
Photographs
Commentary
See discussion at IX.23, and,
for verse inscriptions, IX.15.
Locations
- Found:
Stray find.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985.
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity no. 158 and plate xxxvi whence PHI 736.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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