Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.229. Funerary formula

Description: Piece from the top of a medium-coarse grained white marble panel (w: 0.10 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.065).

Text: Inscribed on one face, which is chipped.

Letters: 0.025-0.03; line 5 all in ligature

Date: First to second centuries (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: Stray, founding in clearing

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]ΩΣΑΙ̣[---]
[---] προσα[ποτείσει? ---]
[---]ΩΤΟΤΙ̣ [---]
[---]ΟΝΙΣΤ[---]
5[---]ΝΜΗΜ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΩΣΑ.[---]
[---]ΠΡΟΣΑ[........---]
[---]ΩΤΟΤ.[---]
[---]ΟΝΙΣΤ[---]
5[---]ΝΜΗΜ[---]

Apparatus

3: perhaps τὸ τῆ̣ [ς ἐπιγράφης]
4: e.g. [ἀντιγραφ]ὸν ἰς τ[ὸ χρεοφυλάκιον]
5: perhaps an error for μνήμ[ην]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] shall pay a penalty [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 69.21

Publication: IAph2007 8.229.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)