IAph: 15.305. Funerary verse

Description: Fragment of a block (w: 0.18 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.16) without back or edges.

Text: Inscribed on the face, which is in poor condition

Letters: Standard forms; rather lightly cut; 0.01

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1972

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

[------]
[---]Α̣ΚΑ[---]
[---ἐνθ?]άδε μο[ῖρα? ---]
[---]Ω̣ Ζ̣αινό[βιος?---]
[--- κ]εῖμαι δυ[---]
5[---]ο̣υ σ̣έμν̣[ο---]
[---]Ν̣Ο̣ΣΟΤ̣[---]

[------]
[---].ΚΑ[---]
[---...]ΑΔΕΜΟ[...---]
[---]..ΑΙΝΟ[....---]
[---.]ΕΙΜΑΙΔΥ[---]
5[---].Υ.ΕΜ.[.---]
[---]..ΣΟ.[---]

Apparatus

5: suggests praise of the life lived.

None possible.

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1972 72.494

Publication: IAph2007 15.305.

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)