Description of Monument

A white marble monument, cut in one piece, in the form of a pyramid surmounting a rectangular base (0.95 × 0.50 × 0.50); all four sides of the pyramid and of the base are cut as panels within moulding. The top of the pyramid is broken away, but there are traces of a hole which would have held an insertion at the apex.

Description of Text

Line 1 is inscribed on the front panel of the pyramid, lines 2-3 within the front panel of the base.

Description of Letters

0034.045; clear cut and irregular; apostrophes in lines 3 and 6.

Date

Late fifth century (prosopography).

Edition οὐ θά νεν οὐ δ' Ἀχέ ροντοςἴδεν ῥό ον, ἀλλ' ἐ ν Ὀλύμπωι Ἀσκληπιόδο τος τείρεσι συνφέρετε, οὗτος ὅτις δώμησε καὶ ἀγλαὰ πολ λὰ τιθήνηι

Apparatus

The monument appears to be complete below; it must be assumed that it originally stood on another feature on which the last line of the epigram was inscribed.

l.8. ΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ, corrected by Cormack and Robert.

Translation He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in Olympus Asclepiodotus is among the stars—he who also built many splendid things for his motherland

Commentary

For Asclepiodotus see also 53; see discussion at V.8.

For the funerary epigram see discussion at IX.15, IX.19.

Found

Village: reused supporting a pillar of a verandah, in a house subsequently demolished.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1979.

Bibliography

Published from the MAMA records by Cormack, 8, no. 487, whence 13, 170-171, 1966.399; published by Roueché, no. 54 and plate xiii, whence 731, 02/09/06.

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1980)

Face (1980)

Left side (2004)

Right side (2004)

Top (2004)

Category of Text

verse; funerary.

Category of Monument

funerary stele.