Description:
White marble building block without moulding (w: 0.948 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.36), broken below and at the right end; surface damaged
at lower left corner.
Text: Lightly inscribed on a roughly dressed surface, worn all over. The text certainly began on a block above.
Letters: Non-monumental, hand designed eithout ruler or compass; cursive sigma, epsilon, omega. Perhaps second century CE; 0.015-2.0.
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, South-east: in spoils dump to the East of the South Agora, Agora Gate
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
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( vac. 1) τῶν ἀρετῶν πολ̣λὸν ἐπαυρόμενην̣ [--- κ]αὶ ̣[δέ-]
( vac. 1) μαϲ ἐνθάδε κεῖται ἐπὶ χθονὸϲ, αὐτὰρ ὁ θυ̣[μοϲ]
ἔδραμεν ἐς μάκ̣αραϲ πολλον ἀ̣γαλλόμενο̣[ϲ ---]
[..] Γ̣ΕΔΥ̣Ε μυρόμενον ποθινὸν πόσιν ΗΛ̣Λ̣ΡΑΤΕ [..]
5[..]ΝΑΕΩ̣Τ [.] ΤΤ̣ χρόνων τετράτ̣ηϲ οὐκ̣ ἐ̣ν̣έβ̣η Λ̣ [..]
[---]ΟΝ [.] Λ̣Ι̣Ν̣[---]
Diplomatic
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ΤΩΝΑΡΕΤΩΝΠΟ.ΛΟΝΕΠΑΥΡΟΜΕΝΗ.[---.]ΑΙ.[..-]
ΜΑϹΕΝΘΑΔΕΚΕΙΤΑΙΕΠΙΧΘΟΝΟϹΑΥΤΑΡΟΘ.[...]
ΕΔΡΑΜΕΝΕΣΜΑ.ΑΡΑϹΠΟΛΛΟΝ.ΓΑΛΛΟΜΕΝ.[.---]
[··].ΕΔ.ΕΜΥΡΟΜΕΝΟΝΠΟΘΙΝΟΝΠΟΣΙΝΗ..ΡΑΤΕ[··]
5[··]ΝΑΕ.Τ[·]Τ.ΧΡΟΝΩΝΤΕΤΡΑ.ΗϹΟΥ...Ε.Η.[··]
[---]ΟΝ[·]...[---]
Apparatus
The metre suggests that the opening line is not the first (it seems to be a pentameter) the text presumably started on a block
above
Translation
. . . ] enjoying much of virtues . . . and body lies here, but the spirit has rushed to (join) the blessed, glorying [ .
. . ] her much love husband [ . . .] did not enter the fourth year
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 92.2
Publication: Smith, 1993a 355 and fig 15, whence BE 1996.385 ; IAph2007 11.307.
