Description: Round marble circular funerary altar with a simple moulding above and below (h: 0.65)
Text: Inscribed on the drum.
Letters: 0.012-0.015
Date: Late second - first century BCE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls: re-used in the East stretch (north part).
Original location: Necropolis.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2009
The stone speaks of Epikrates, the son of Epikrates, still a young man, who lies under this mound. The dust is left behind, and the barbita, no longer strummed, also the Homeric (songs?) and the spears and the willow circle (i.e. the shield) with the beautiful handle, the halters (?) of the young horses, covered with cobwebs, the bows, and the javelins. Being distinguished in all this, the glorious young man went to Hades.
German translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2015
Der Stein spricht von Epikrates, Sohn des Epikrates, der unter diesem Grab liegt, noch ein junger Mann. Zurückgelassen word ein Staub, und die Barbita, die nicht mehr geschlagen weren, die homerischen Blätter (oder Gesänge), die Lanzen und der aus Weide gemachte Schild mit dem schönen Griff, das Pferdegeschirr von Spinnennetz gedeckt, die Bogen und die Speere. In allen diesen Dingen ausgezeichnet is der junge Mann in den Hades gegangen.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 07.32, I 07.22
Publication: Smith, 2009 331, no. 1 (description, and photograph p.337); Chaniotis, 2009, whence SEG 59.1197, Chaniotis, 2015 115-116; Chaniotis, 2016 4, whence SEG 66.1151 (mention)
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