Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.39. Funerary verse

Description: White marble fragment of a sarcophagus (w: 1.15 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.45) with a bust in relief.

Text: Inscribed to the right of the bust.

Letters: 0.03

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: reused in a house wall

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

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[c. 20 ἀλ]ύτο[ις]
( vac. 3) δεσμοῖσι κρατεῖται
εἰς αἰῶνα μένουσα πάλαι
( vac. 3) τὸν λυσιμέριμνον

Diplomatic

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[····················..]ΥΤΟ[..]
      ΔΕΣΜΟΙΣΙΚΡΑΤΕΙΤΑΙ
ΕΙΣΑΙΩΝΑΜΕΝΟΥΣΑΠΑΛΑΙ
      ΤΟΝΛΥΣΙΜΕΡΙΜΝΟΝ

Apparatus

1: καμάτων ἀλ]ύτο[ις] Kaibel, 1878, Ramsay, 1897, MAMA 8; [ψυχὴ γὰρ]/[σώματος οὐκέτι νῦν ἀλ]ύτο[ις] Peek, 1980, IAph2007; ἀλ]ύτο[ις] Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998

Bibliography

Transcription: Waddington, 1850; Kubitschek, June 1893 xxx; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition Sarcophagus 237

Publication: Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1648 , whence Kaibel, 1878 429, Ramsay, 1897 430 , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 279 ; MAMA 8 601 , whence Peek, 1980 12, SEG 30.1256, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.359 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 400 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/93 ; IAph2007 11.39.

Images

Fig. 1. View (M. Roueché, 1981)

Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1981)