15.354. Funerary verse for Makedonios
- Description:
- Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a rectangular white marble panel (H. 0.27 × W. 0.265 × D. 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).
- Findspot:
- Stray find.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 158 and plate xxxvi whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 736.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross ἔνθα Μακη[δόνιος ·· ? ··]
- 2ΕΤΤΑΙ βιοτ[ο·· ? ·· ·· ? ··]-
- 3εύσας ΑΡΘΛ̣[·· ? ·· ?ἀνθρ]-
- 4ώπων stop ἐμβο[?λ·· ? ··]
- 5 vac. cross ΕΛΕΘΩ̣[·· ? ··]
- 6 vacat
- 1 cross ΕΝΘΑΜΑΚΗ[······ - - - ]
- 2ΕΤΤΑΙΒΙΟΤ[· - - - - - - ]
- 3ΕΥΣΑΣΑΡΘ·[ - - - ····]
- 4ΩΠΩΝ stop ΕΜΒΟ[· - - - ]
- 5 cross ΕΛΕΘ·[ - - - ]
- 6 vacat
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
ἔνθα
Μακη
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δόνιος
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ετται
</orig>
βιοτ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ο
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
εύσας
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
αρθ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
λ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ἀνθρ
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
ώπων
<g
type="stop"
/>
ἐμβο
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
λ
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ελεθ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ω
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<space
extent="4"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 5, <?τ>ελέθω cj. Feissel (1991), 376.
Translation:
Here [lies] Make[donios·· ? ··] life [·· ? ··] ?of men [·· ? ··].
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.23.
Photographs:
- Face (1985)
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