Description: Fragment from the upper right side of a white marble panel or stele (w: 0.275 × h: 0.41 × d: 0.13).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Late Hellenistic, perhaps second century BCE: 0.015 - 0.02; uneven lineation, but distinctive 'literary' layout.
Date: Late Hellenistic (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrapylon: TDS
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1990)
Apparatus
3-4: For the formula see at Herakleia Salbake, La Carie p.188
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Elpis ?made these things [ . . . ] has been buried in this [?tomb . . .] property and [ . . . ?says farewell] to those who pass by [ . . . ] and virtue [ . . . ] grapevine [ . . . ] and beauty [ . . . ] grace [ . . . ]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 90.15.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)