<rs type="textType"><rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType">verse</rs></rs> for Arkimos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A white marble plaque (0.43 × 0.33 × 0.05), chipped at sides and broken at upper left corner.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

Clear, irregular. ave. 0.04.

Date

Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre).

Edition κὲ ἐν ἔργοιςκὲ ἐν πᾶσι τιμητὸν βίονκατέλιπενἌρκιμος ὁ Δαμοχάριδος
Apparatus

ll. 2-3, τιμῇ τὸν ALA; τιμητὸν Feissel (1991).

Translation He left a life distinguished both in works and in all things, Arkimos son of Damocharis.
Commentary

The first four lines are in verse. See discussion at IX.26

Locations

Found: Bouleuterion/Odeon, North area: in the top soil. Original location: Unknown. Last recorded location: Museum (1977).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.321).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 162, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 729.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1977)