Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.383. Funerary verse fragment

Description: Piece of a broken block (w: 0.56 × h: 0.26 × d: 0.215).

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.

Letters: ave. 0.022

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray in 1974

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1974)

Interpretive

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[---]ε̣ΝΗΝ καὶ ΑΣ̣[---]
[---]ι̣κὴν ΚΑΙΚΟΙΔΟΣ[---]
[---]Ν τότε γαθομένην Ο̣[---]
[---]ἔ̣σχον ἀπ'αὐτῆς Μ[---]
5[---]Σ̣ΙΝ λυκάβασιν[---]
[---]θέλει ΟΙΔΑ[---]
[---ἀν]θρώ̣πο̣υ [---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---].ΝΗΝΚΑΙΑ.[---]
[---]ΗΝΚΑΙΚΟΙΔΟΣ[---]
[---]ΝΤΟΤΕΓΑΘΟΜΕΝΗΝ.[---]
[---].ΣΧΟΝΑΠΑΥΤΗΣΜ[---]
5[---].ΙΝΛΥΚΑΒΑΣΙΝ[---]
[---]ΘΕΛΕΙΟΙΔΑ[---]
[---..]ΘΡ.Π.Υ[---]
[------]

Apparatus

3: πότε (?)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] then enjoying [ . . .] had from her [ . . .] years [ . . .] wishes [ . . .] of man [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 74.184

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1974)