Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.210. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment of a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.46 × h: 0.305 × d: 0.11) with, apparently, top edge surviving and perhaps lower edge.

Text: Inscribed on the surface of the surviving face.

Letters: Irregular; 0.02 (o) - 0.025-0.028; diairetic dots around first I, line 2; o for stops.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (north part), lying just NE of water channel stretch.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978)

Interpretive

[--- Ζη?]νων Ι̣[---]
[---]κ̣οῦ ΦΙΛΟ[---]
[--- Ἑρ?]μ̣ολαοϲ μὲν ((stop)) ἰδεῖν + [---]
[--- Ζ]ήνων ((stop)) ἐπικληθ[---]
5[---]Υ Μοῖραι γὰρ ἐπέκλω̣ϲ̣[αν ---]
[...]ΑϹ ( vac. 1) πάϲῃ τε πόλει ((stop)) κα[ὶ ---]
[---] ( vac. 7) ΟΥ καὶ̣ ἑαυτ[ο---]
[---] ( vac. 3) ΠΑ̣ΥϹ̣Α[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---..]ΝΩΝ.[---]
[---].ΟΥΦΙΛΟ[---]
[---..].ΟΛΑΟϹΜΕΝ • ΙΔΕΙΝ·[---]
[---.]ΗΝΩΝ • ΕΠΙΚΛΗΘ[---]
5[---]ΥΜΟΙΡΑΙΓΑΡΕΠΕΚΛ..[..---]
[···]ΑϹ  ΠΑϹΗΤΕΠΟΛΕΙ • ΚΑ[.---]
[---]              ΟΥΚΑ.ΕΑΥΤ[.---]
[---]      Π.Υ.Α[---]
[------]

Apparatus

6: Perhaps ΚΑ̣ΒΕ
8: Perhaps ΠΛ̣ΕΥ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . He]rmolaos to see [ . . . ] Zenon, named [ . . . ]For the Fates assigned [ . . . ] for the whole city [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 79.16, Walls 11

Publication: IAph2007 12.210.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)


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