15.362. Funerary verse for Euphemia
- Description:
- A plain white marble masonry block (H. 0.235 × W. 0.40 × D. 0.56), on the face of which a tabella ansata has been incised. The face is fairly worn.
- Text:
- The date, a, is written above the tabella and down the right side, which is worn; the main text, b, is written within the tabella, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.
- Letters:
- Av. 0.02; irregular.
- Date:
- A.D. 543 or A.D. 558 (indiction, emperor).
- Findspot:
- Stray find.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1966.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 157 and plate xxxvii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 732, Steinepigramme 02/09/29.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- a
- 1βασιλεύοντος Ἰουστινιανοῦ
- 2ἰν-
- 3δ(ικτίωνος)
- 4ζ´
- 5μη(νὸς)
- 6α̣´
- 7Π̣ο
- 8[·· ? ··]
- 9Ι̣Κ̣
- b
- 1ἐνθάδε τὴν ἱερὰν κεφαλὴν γαῖα καλύπτει |
- 2κούρης ᾗ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐπώνυμον | οὔνομα κεῖτο· |
- 3μήτιος εὐφήμοιο καὶ οὐκ ἑ |(5)τέρ' ἔπλετο φήμης |
- 4εὐφυέος πινυτοῖσιν ἐφ' ἔρ|γμασιν αἰὲν ἐοῦσα· |
- 5ἀλλὰ θεῶν μακάρων Εὐφημία | ἐς χορὸν ἥκοις. |
- 6(10) ἐπλήρωσεν τὸν βίον Εὐφημία | ἐτῶν ιη´ ἰνδ̣(ικτίωνος) [ζ´ ·· ? ··] μ̣η̣(νὸς) α̣´
- a
- 1ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΟΝΤΟΣΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΥ
- 2ΙΝ
- 3Δ
- 4Ζ
- 5ΜΗ
- 6·
- 7·Ο
- 8[ - - - ]
- 9··
- b
- 1ΕΝΘΑΔΕΤΗΝΙΕΡΑΝΚΕΦΑΛΗΝΓΑΙΑΚΑΛΥΠΤΕΙ
- 2ΚΟΥΡΗΣΗΤΟΠΑΡΟΙΘΕΝΕΠΩΝΥΜΟΝ
- 3ΟΥΝΟΜΑΚΕΙΤΟ
- 4ΜΗΤΙΟΣΕΥΦΗΜΟΙΟΚΑΙΟΥΚΕ
- 5ΤΕΡ'ΕΠΛΕΤΟΦΗΜΗΣ
- 6ΕΥΦΥΕΟΣΠΙΝΥΤΟΙΣΙΝΕΦ'ΕΡ
- 7ΓΜΑΣΙΝΑΙΕΝΕΟΥΣΑ
- 8ΑΛΛΑΘΕΩΝΜΑΚΑΡΩΝΕΥΦΗΜΙΑ
- 9ΕΣΧΟΡΟΝΗΚΟΙΣ
- 10ΕΠΛΗΡΩΣΕΝΤΟΝΒΙΟΝΕΥΦΗΜΙΑ
- 11ΕΤΩΝΙΗΙΝ·[· - - - ]···
Apparatus
a. It is not certain whether there are any significant traces after l.6.
b. In l.11 the missing area may well have been an original fault, since the surviving letters convey all the information that we would expect.
Translation:
a. In the reign of Justinian, the seventh indiction, the first month [·· ? ··]
b. Here earth covers the sacred head of a girl who, before, had an appropriate name. She was of well-famed skill and similarly of a seemly reputation, being always (engaged) in prudent labours. But, Euphemia, may you come to the choir of the blessed gods. Euphemia completed her life at 18 years, in the [seventh] indiction [·· ? ··] the first month.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.22.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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Representations:
- Photograph of squeeze
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