Description:
Four joining fragments (together H. 0.23 × W. 0.56 × D. 0.40) from a white marble masonry block with upper and lower surfaces surviving, but with the upper part of the front face broken away; the block is broken at either end.
Text:
Inscribed on the face; it is likely that the text occupied at least one more adjacent block in a composite monument.
Letters:
av. 0.07, omicron 0.055; deep, clear and ornate; lunate.
Date:
Fifth/sixth century (content, metre).
Findspot:
Temple/Church: south aisle.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1961.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 159 and plate xxxvii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 740, Steinepigramme 02/09/91.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Ι̣Κ̣ΛΕ̣Ι̣ΑΝΕΛ̣Ο̣Φ̣[·]ΛΟΜ[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ··]ΗΝ φθόνος ἁρπάξ[?ας ·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]··Λ··ΑΝΕ···[·]ΛΟΜ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]ΗΝΦΘΟΝΟΣΑΡΠΑΞ[·· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ικ
</unclear>
λ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ει
</unclear>
ανε
<unclear reason="damage" >
λοφ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
λομ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ην
</orig>
φθόνος
ἁρπάξ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ας
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··]icleia [·· ? ··] ?whom Envy, having snatched away [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IX.24.

Photographs:

3 fragments (1977)
 3 fragments (1977)
All fragments (1978)
 All fragments (1978)

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