Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.244. Funerary inscription for(?) Heraklide, Thyodora, and Meltine

Description: Part of the left side of a white marble block which has been reused as a water trough (w: 0.24 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.035).

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: poorly cut; 0.02; rho with a tail.

Date: First to fourth centuries CE (formulae, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
Ν̣Α τ̣οῦ Ἀπ [---]
Ἡρακ<λ>ίδη κα̣[ὶ ---]
Θυοδώρα κα̣[ὶ ---]
Μελτίνη θυγ[ατερες ---]
5Θυοδώρας [---]
( vac. 2) χαίρ<ε>τε ( vac. 1) [( vac. 1)? ---]

Diplomatic

[------]
.Α.ΟΥΑΠ[---]
ΗΡΑΚΙΔΗΚ.[.---]
ΘΥΟΔΩΡΑΚ.[.---]
ΜΕΛΤΙΝΗΘΥΓ[......---]
5ΘΥΟΔΩΡΑΣ[---]
    ΧΑΙΡΤΕ  [.---]

Translation

[---] ?-na (daughter? wife?) of Ap- [...] Heraklide and [...] Thyodora and [...] Meltine, daughters [...] of Thyodora [...]. Farewell

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.11

Publication: IAph2007 15.244.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)


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