Description: White marble sarcophagus front: 'Marble slab with incised panel, broken on right and chipped below' w: 0.515 × h: 0.185 x no depth given)
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.01-0.0175
Date: No indication
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village; 'In a garden wall' (MAMA)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Theseus the ostler, much-talked of, lies here, who, being a man of every virtue, was most particularly just. Oh passerby, do not pass me by before you have learnt what is written on the stele. Make merry, eat, drink, get possession of luxuries; for this (the tomb) was the end ...]
German translation
Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
Hier liegt Theseus, der bekannte, der Aufseher über die Lasttiere, der über alle Trefflichkeit hinaus äusserst gerecht war. O Wanderer, geh nicht an mir vorbei, bevor du gelesen hast, was auf dem Stein steht: Solange du lebst, lass es dir gut sein, iss, trink, geniesse, umarme: denn dies hier ist das Ende . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934
Publication: MAMA 8 569 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 184, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.409, McCabe, PHI, 1996 398 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/32; IAph2007 11.1.
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