<rs type="textType" reg="funerary" cert="low">Funerary</rs> inscription for Elpides

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block (0.38 × 0.17 × 0.26).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.045

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἜλπιδεςΕἰδαίου
Translation

Elpides [... ? ...] (?son of) Eidaios [?...]

Commentary

Reinach suggested tentatively that this might be funerary.

Locations

Martyrion, apparently re-used in the inner narthex wall. Unknown. Findspot.

History of Recording

Recorded by K&R (no notebook entry); by Gaudin (165); by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 288-289, no 188, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 471.

Text Constituted From

Publication; Gaudin's squeeze (red book 45v); Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).

Photographs

Face (1973)