Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.354. Funerary verse for Makedonios

Description: Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a rectangular white marble panel (w: 0.265 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.03).

Text: Inscribed on the face, which is polished, and has been prepared with a lightly-cut grid, within which the letters are cut, one letter in each square.

Letters: Irregular but clear, av. 0.025; epsilon is both lunate (lines 2, 3) and square (lines 4, 5). Two dots for stop, 1.4.

Date: Fifth or sixth century (content, metre).

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Museum.

Interpretive

((Cross)) ἔνθα Μακη[δόνιοϲ ---]
ΕΤΤΑΙ βιοτ[ο---] [---]-
εύϲαϲ ΑΡΘΛ̣[--- ἀνθρ?-]
ώπων ((stop)) ἐμβο[λ?---]
5( vac. 3)((Cross)) ΕΛΕΘΩ̣[---]
( vac. 4 lines)

Diplomatic

ΕΝΘΑΜΑΚΗ[......---]
ΕΤΤΑΙΒΙΟΤ[.------]
ΕΥϹΑϹΑΡΘ.[---....-]
ΩΠΩΝ ΕΜΒΟ[.---]
5       ΕΛΕΘ.[---]
     vacat

Apparatus

5: <τ?>ελέθω cj. Feissel (1991), 376.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

Here [lies] Make[donios ---] life [---] of men(?) [---].

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, 1985

Publication: Roueché, ALA 158 and plate xxxvi whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 736 , ALA 2004 158, IAph2007 15.354.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1985)