163. Epitaph of AthanasiusCharlotte M. Roueché2003
EnglishFrenchAncient GreekLatin2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-04-06Juan GarcésCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-06Gabriel BodardCorrected errors in Greek2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode2003-06-02Gabriel Bodardtidied and corrected2003-04-30Juan Garcéstagged Greek; tidied2003-08-29CMRtagged and corrected2004-02-27CMRchecked; image refs.
Description of Monument
Four joining fragments of a white marble panel (0.40
x 0.42 x 0.09)
Description of Text
Inscribed on both sides within a raised and moulded edge.
On face a the moulding is slightly more elaborate, and the lettering, which is more regular than on face
b, is surrounded by an incised margin; the last letter of 1.4
interrupts the margin, which seems to have been cut after the
letters.
Description of Letters
Clear and not overly irregular, with square epsilon
and sigma, but lunate omega. Face a: 0.01-0.015. ll. 13-15 0.02; abbreviations in 1. 15: ΙΣ. ΧΡΣ. ΠΑ.. Face b: 0.15-0.02. On both sides there are diaeretic
dots on some initial vowels.
Date
Fourth - sixth century or later (lettering, content)
Translation
a. I, Athanasius, who
performed every civic duty in this, my own country, and lived abroad
for many years, and visited many peoples, and sailed every sea as far
as Ocean, and saw every race of men, and was kept safe, I prayed to
God to reach my country and to be buried by the traces of the holy
martyrs, so thatI should have an advocate in the day of
judgement Jesus Christ, Father, receive my
soul b. Here I lie, Athanasius,
who lived abroad for many years, and visited many peoples. and sailed
every sea as far as Ocean, and saw every race of men, and was kept
safe, I prayed to God to reach my country and to be buried by the
traces of the holy martyrsso that I should have an advocate in
the day of judgement .