Description of Monument
A white marble plaque (0.295 × 0.53 × 0.04), with the back left rough; chipped at
upper and lower edges.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face; the initial Σ of Στέφανος was cut above the
line.
Description of Letters
Av. 0.02-0.025.
Date
Fifth/sixth century (lettering, metre).
Edition
σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν
ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις
εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά
κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα
ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο
τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα
Translation
This is the grave of Stephanus, whom you hear among the
living to have been a servant of piety, a gentle man; in the prime of
life the doom of disease snatched him away.
Commentary
See discussion at IX.20, and,
for verse inscriptions, IX.15.
Found
Fields: at Palamucuk, north of Aphrodisias.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Museum.
History of Recording
Found by the NYU expedition during survey work in
1979/80.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
no. 155 and plate xxxviii, whence PHI 737,
Steinepigramme 02/09/31.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Category of Text
funerary; verse.
Category of Monument
plaque.