13.157. Fragment of funerary verse
- Description:
- A white marble fragment, apparently of a ?sarcophagus front, (H. 0.78 × W. 0.85 × D. 0.16), broken above and below.
- Text:
- Inscribed a above and b within a tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.055; irregular.
- Date:
- Fourth century or later.
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, North-east: 'ostl.(?) von Aphrodisias. Acker des Hadji Ibraham = Weinberg' (Kubitschek).
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1893).
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Kubitschek, 9 June 1893 (K. III, 16, Abklatsch 83); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack (1964) 19, 9, and fig. 1, whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 38; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 160.a, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 757 and b, whence PHI 739, Steinepigramme 02/09/34.
- Text constituted from:
- Kubitschek notebook. This edition Roueché (2007).
- a
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[·· ? ··]Μ̣Ι̣ΟΙ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· ? ··] v. [·· ? ··]
- 3[·· ? ··] v. [·· ? ··]
- 4[·· ? ··] ΕΝ εἰκάδι
- 5[·· ? ·· μ]ηνὸς Σ̣ v.
- 6[·· ? ··]ΟΝΤΟΣ v.
- b
- | δυσμενέ|ων ἀπά|νευθε, φί|λων χερ|(5)σὶν ἑταί|ρων cross .
- a
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]··Ο·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ]ΕΝΕΙΚΑΔΙ
- 5[ - - - ·]ΗΝΟΣ·
- 6[ - - - ]ΟΝΤΟΣ
- b
- 1ΔΥΣΜΕΝΕ
- 2ΩΝΑΠΑ
- 3ΝΕΥΘΕΦΙ
- 4ΛΩΝΧΕΡ
- 5ΣΙΝΕΤΑΙ
- 6ΡΩΝ cross
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n="a"
>
<ab>
</div>
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n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
μι
</unclear>
ο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
εν
</orig>
εἰκάδι
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μ
</supplied>
ηνὸς
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
σ
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
οντος
</orig>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart_fragment"
n="b"
>
<lg>
</div>
<l
>
</lg>
<lb
n="1"
/>
δυσμενέ
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
ων
ἀπά
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
νευθε
,
φί
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
λων
χερ
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
σὶν
ἑταί
<lb
n="6"
type="worddiv"
/>
ρων
<g
type="cross"
/>
.
</l>
Apparatus
a, l.1. Μ might be Α.
There is no indication of how much is missing to either side in ll. 2 ff.
Translation:
a. ·· ? ··] ?on the twentieth of the month ·· ? ··]
b. ·· ? ··] far from enemies, by the hands of dear friends.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.24.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 3, p. 16
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