Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.315. Funerary verse for Arkimos

Description: A white marble plaque (w: 0.33 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.05), chipped at sides and broken at upper left corner.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Clear, irregular. ave. 0.04.

Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE (lettering, metre)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area: in the top soil

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive


[κὲ? ἐ]ν̣ ἔργοις | κὲ ἐν πᾶσι τι|μητὸν βίον | κατέλιπεν

5Ἄρκιμος ὁ Δα-
μοχάριδος
((leaf))

Diplomatic


[...].ΕΡΓΟΙΣ | ΚΕΕΝΠΑΣΙΤΙ |ΜΗΤΟΝΒΙΟΝ | ΚΑΤΕΛΙΠΕΝ

5ΑΡΚΙΜΟΣΟΔΑ
ΜΟΧΑΡΙΔΟΣ

Apparatus

2-3: τιμῇ τὸν Roueché, ALA; τιμητὸν Feissel, 1991

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, ALA

?Both in works and in all things he left his life with honour, Arcimus son of Damocharis.

French translation

Translation source: Feissel, 1991

(ll 1-4): il a laissé une vie distinguée par ses actions et honorable en toutes choses

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

He left a life distinguished [both?] in works and in all things, Arkimos son of Damocharis.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 68.321

Publication: Published Roueché, ALA 162 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 729 , Feissel, 1991 375, n.57; ALA 2004 162, IAph2007 2.315.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)