Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.312. Epitaph of Nikolaos

Description: A large white marble plaque (w: 1.10 × h: 0.90 × d: 0.16) broken either end; the right end has been further broken since 1893.

Text: Inscribed across the centre of the face.

Letters: 0.03-0.07; abbreviations: last letter above line, and apostrophe.

Date: Tenth century or later. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: , 'W(estlich) von der Säulenruine' (Kubitschek); Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon, during clearing (NYU).

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Museum (1980)

Interpretive

[ἐν]ταῦθ(α) κεῖτ(αι) τὸ λείμψανον ((stop)) Νικολά(ου)

Diplomatic

[..]ΤΑΥΘΚΕΙΤΤΟΛΕΙΜΨΑΝΟΝ • ΝΙΚΟΛΑ

Apparatus

1: The last letter was read by Kubitschek, but is not now visible. As it was written above the line, and with an apostrophe, it is presumably an abbreviation of Νικολά(ου) rather than Νικόλα read by Cormack.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

Here lie the remains of Nikolaos.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.22, Abklatsch viii; New York University expedition in 1980

Publication: Cormack, 1964 11, whence Robert, 1966 281n. 3; Roueché, ALA 173 and plate xxix, whence ALA 2004 173, IAph2007 4.312; Chaniotis, 2024 48.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 2. Transcription by Kubitschek (1893), notebook 3, p. 22


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