159. <seg cert="uncertain" part="N">Fragment of funerary verse</seg> Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Four joining fragments (together 0.23 × 0.56 × 0.40) from a white marble block with upper and lower surfaces surviving, but with the upper part of the front face broken away; the block is broken at either end.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; it is likely that the text occupied at least one more adjacent block in a composite monument.

Description of Letters

av. 0.07, omicron 0.055; deep, clear and ornate; lunate.

Date

Fifth/sixth century (content, metre).

Edition ικλειανελοφλομην φθόνος ἁρπάξας
Translation icleia whom Envy, having snatched away
Commentary

See discussion at IX.24, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Found

Temple-Church: south aisle.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1961.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 159 and plate xxxvii, whence PHI 740, Steinepigramme 02/09/91.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

3 fragments (1977)

All fragments (1978)

Category of Text

funerary; verse.

Category of Monument

masonry block.