14.16. Funerary verse for Stephanos
- Description:
- A white marble plaque (H. 0.295 × W. 0.53 × D. 0.04), with the back left rough; chipped at upper and lower edges.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face; the initial Σ of Στέφανος was cut above the line.
- Letters:
- Av. 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre).
- Findspot:
- Neighbouring settlement, Palamuçuk: north of Aphrodisias.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- 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 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 737, Steinepigramme 02/09/31.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν | ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις |
- 2εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά |κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα |
- 3(5) ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο | τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα cross
- 1 cross ΣΗΜΑΤΟΔΕΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΙΟΤΟΝ
- 2ΕΝΖΩΟΙΣΙΝΑΚΟΥΕΙΣ
- 3ΕΥΣΕΒΙΗΣΓΕΓΑΩΤΑΔΙΑ
- 4ΚΤΟΡΟΝΗΠΙΟΝΑΝΔΡΑ
- 5ΑΚΜΗΝΕΣΒΙΟΤΟΙΟ
- 6ΤΟΝΗΡΠΑΣΕΛΟΙΜΙΟΣΑΙΣΑ cross
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σῆμα
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ἐν
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εὐσεβίης
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κτορον
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ἀκμὴν
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Translation:
This is the grave of Stephanos, 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 ala2004 IX.20.
Photographs:
- Face (1980)
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