Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.378. Funerary verse

Description: Lower left corner of a block (w: 0.55 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.21) .

Text: Inscribed on one face within a sunken panel (w: 0.53 × h: 0.24); the last line cut on the moulding.

Letters: 0.02.

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[c. 9]ΡΟΠΑΤ+[---]
[..]Ι̣Ι̣ΔΙ̣Ο̣Ν ἐπέφυκεν Λ̣[---]
πᾶσι νόμος κἄν γὰρ̣ ἀνω[---]
ΟΣ ἐστιν καὶ ζησάσῃ [---]
5τοῦτον τὸ θανεῖν Ο[---]
ἐκ γαίης τὸ τραφὲν ΚΑ[---]
( vac. 1) Γαία̣ [c. 5] ( vac. 1) ΛΑΙ̣ [---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[·········]ΡΟΠΑΤ·[---]
[··]..Δ..ΝΕΠΕΦΥΚΕΝ.[---]
ΠΑΣΙΝΟΜΟΣΚΑΝΓΑ.ΑΝΩ[---]
ΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΚΑΙΖΗΣΑΣΗ[---]
5ΤΟΥΤΟΝΤΟΘΑΝΕΙΝΟ[---]
ΕΚΓΑΙΗΣΤΟΤΡΑΦΕΝΚΑ[---]
  ΓΑΙ.[·····]  ΛΑ.[---]

Apparatus

1: horizonal base survives at end of line, as from Ε, Σ, etc.
3: Ρ could (just) be Φ

Translation

Elements from a funerary verse; mentions of 'law for all'. lines 6/7, perhaps: 'Gaia was her name'; 'from Gaia she took both her nourishment and her name'.?020503

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 69.358

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)