Funerary verse for Claudia
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source date: Fourth-sixth century.
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ἀντὶ φιλοξενίηϲ τε καὶ εὐϲεβέων χάριν ἔργων
Κλαυδίη οἰχομένων ϲε Δίκη κυδήνατο τύμβῳ
κουριδίωι καθαρὸν δὲ δέμαϲ ϲυμμεῖξεν ἀκοίτῃ

Κλαυδίη εὐϲεβίαιϲιν ἀειμνήϲτοιϲι κομῶϲα
οὐρανὸν εἰϲανόρουϲε, δέμαϲ δέ οἱ ἐνθάδε Μοίρη
κουριδίωι ξυνάρηρε καὶ οἰχομένηϲ ϲὺν ἀκοίτῃ
τύμβῳ ὑπ’ εὐαγε[...]

[^1]: In repayment for hospitality, and in thanks for pious works, Claudia, Justice has honoured you with the tomb of the dead, and has wedded your pure body with it as a lawful husband.

[^1: a]

[^2]: Claudia, who abounded in acts of piety which will ever be remembered, has rushed up to heaven, but Fate here below has joined her body, even after death, with a wedded husband, a tomb, by the pure . . .

[^2: b]

Justitia selbst hat dich, Claudia, im Grab der Dahingescheidenen ehrenvoll beigesetzt, als Dank für deine Gastfreundschaft und für deine frommen Werke, und hat deine Gestalt bei deinem Ehemann beigesetzt.

Claudia, die in frommen Werken, welche man immer erinneren wird, blühte, ist zum Himmel empor aufgebrochen, aber die Schicksalsgöttin hat hier die Gestalt der Verschiedenen mit ihrem Gatten im Grab zusammengeführt . . .

[...] brought by village children in 1970, 70.210

[...] 153a and b and plate xxxvi (a only), whence [...] 734, 735 , [...] 02/09/28 , [...] 153, [...] 15.347.