Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

7.4. Funerary inscription for Elpides

Description: White marble block (w: 0.38 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.26), complete to the left, damaged, and possibly broken away, to the right.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.045

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Martyrion, apparently re-used in the inner narthex wall, or perhaps moved there; "Remparts intérieurement, près de la basilique de de la porte primitive ouest" (Gaudin)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

Interpretive

Ἔλπιδες[---]
Εἰδαίου[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

ΕΛΠΙΔΕΣ[---]
ΕΙΔΑΙΟΥ[---]
[------]

Translation

Elpides [... ? ...] (?son of) Eidaios [?...]

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 165; New York University expedition

Publication: Reinach, 1906 188 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 471 ; IAph2007 7.4.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)