Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.504. Funerary fragment

Description: A white marble fragment of moulding, broken to left, complete to right, and worn (w: 0.53 × h: 0.41 × d: 0.29).

Text: The first two lines are written in large letters, and below them is a line, suggesting that the next three lines are written on another face of moulding.

Letters: 0.022

Date: Perhaps First century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-west area: 'outside the west wall' (Kubitschek)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)

Interpretive

[...]ΣỊỊΟ̣
[... κ]αὶ τυ̣[μβω]ρ̣υχο̣[ς?] ΚΟ̣
[... τοῦ ἐκδ]ικήσαν[τος] καὶ οὐδε
[... ἀπο]τεθήσεται εἰς τὰ
5[ἀρχεῖα ... μηνὸ]ς̣ Καισαρ̣εῶνος ((scroll))

Diplomatic

[···]Σ...
[···.]ΑΙΤ.[...].ΥΧ.[.]Κ.
[···......]ΙΚΗΣΑΝ[...]ΚΑΙΟΥΔΕ
[···...]ΤΕΘΗΣΕΤΑΙΕΙΣΤΑ
5[......···....].ΚΑΙΣΑ.ΕΩΝΟΣ

Apparatus

2: In line 2, Cormack restored καὶ τυμβωρύχο[ς]; but the copy shows a circular letter followed immediately by K. C. comments 'the last two words are clearer on the squeeze than on the drawing.

Translation

No useful translation possible

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.5, Abklatsch 63

Publication: Cormack, 1964Cormack, no. 4 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 570 ; IAph2007 13.504.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 5