160. Fragment of funerary verse Charlotte M. Roueché 2003

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Description of Monument

A white marble fragment, apparently of a sarcophagus front, (0.78 x 0.85 x 0.16), broken above and below.

Description of Text

Inscribed a above and b within a tabella ansata.

Description of Letters

0.03-0.055; irregular.

Date

Fourth century or later.

Edition μιοι εν εἰκάδι μηνὸς σ οντος δυσμενέων ἀπάνευθε, φίλων χερσὶν ἑταίρων .
Apparatus

a, l.1. Μ might be Α.

There is no indication of how much is missing to either side in ll. 2 ff.

Translation a. on the twentieth of the month b. far from enemies, by the hands of dear friends.
Commentary

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

Found

Fields: east of Geyre 'ostl. von Aphrodisias. Acker des Hadji Ibraham = Weinberg' (Kubitschek).

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Copied by Kubitschek, 9 June 1983 (K. III, 16, Abklatsch 83); not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Cormack (1964) 19, 9, and fig. 1, whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 38; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 160.a, whence PHI 757 and b, whence PHI 739, Steinepigramme 02/09/34.

Text Constituted From

Kubitschek notebook.

Representations

Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 3, p. 16

Category of Text

funerary; verse.

Category of Monument

sarcophagus.