Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.502. Funerary honours for Epainetos

Description: White marble block: w: 0.59 × h: 1.37 × d: 0.39

Text: Inscribed in a prepared area with a roughly dressed border approximately in the centre.

Letters: 0.03

Date: Perhaps first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: reused in the Walls, South-east stretch, near 12.524, 8.114

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1983)

Interpretive

ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ( vac. 1) ἔθαψεν
Ἐπαίνετον ( vac. 1) Φιλοδήμου γε-
νόμενον ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα καὶ
διενέγκαντα εὐταξίᾳ καὶ
5ἀρετῇ ἔτι παντάπασι ( vac. 1) ὄν-
τα νέον ἐστεφάνωσεν
δὲ καὶ χρυσῷ στεφάνῳ

Diplomatic

ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ  ΕΘΑΨΕΝ
ΕΠΑΙΝΕΤΟΝ  ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΥΓΕ
ΝΟΜΕΝΟΝΑΓΑΘΟΝΑΝΔΡΑΚΑΙ
ΔΙΕΝΕΓΚΑΝΤΑΕΥΤΑΞΙΑΚΑΙ
5ΑΡΕΤΗΕΤΙΠΑΝΤΑΠΑΣΙ  ΟΝ
ΤΑΝΕΟΝΕΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΣΕΝ
ΔΕΚΑΙΧΡΥΣΩΣΤΕΦΑΝΩ

Translation

The council and the people buried Epainetos son of Philodemos, who was a good man still excelling everyone in discipline and virtue; and when he was young they also crowned him with a gold crown.

Commentary

This appears to be the only text at Aphrodisias which was copied by Picenini, but not transcribed by Sherard; it was therfore not published in CIG II.

Bibliography

Transcription: Picenini, 1705 7, no.57, 26 and 57 (from Tisser); Wood, 1750 14, 50, 14, loose page 44; Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.61; Abklatsch 29; Gaudin, 1904 146; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1975

Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 10 ; Reinach, 1906 50 ; MAMA 8 464 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 473 ; IAph2007 12.502.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)

Fig. 3. Wood notebook 14, page 45v

Fig. 4. Wood notebook 14, page 45v

Fig. 5. Kubitschek notebook III, 61