158. Funerary verse, for Macedonius Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a rectangular white marble slab (0.27 × 0.265 × 0.03).

Description of 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.

Description of Letters

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

Date

Fifth or sixth century (content, metre).

Edition ἔνθα Μακηδόνιος ετται βιοτο εύσας αρθλ ἀνθρώπων ἐμβολ ελεθω
Apparatus

5: τελέθω cj. Feissel (1991), 376.

Translation Here lies Macedonius life of men .
Commentary

See discussion at IX.23, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Found

Stray find.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 158 and plate xxxvi whence PHI 736.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1985)

Category of Text

funerary; verse.

Category of Monument

panel.