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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble fragment of a sarcophagus (1.15 × 0.35 × 0.45) with a bust in relief.

Description of Text

Inscribed to the right of the bust.

Letters

0.03

Date

probably Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ψυχὴ γὰρ σώματος οὐκέτι νῦν ἀλύτοις δεσμοῖσι κρατεῖται εἰς αἰῶνα μένουσα πάλαι τὸν λυσιμέριμνον
Apparatus

The supplements are suggested by Peek.

l. 1, MAMA conjectured καμάτων ἀλ]ύτο[ις]

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

A funerary inscription in hexameters

The contents may be Christian (as assumed by earlier editors) but the lettering is not later than the third century

Locations

City, Village: reused in a house wall Unknown necropolis Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications

History of Recording

Copied by Waddington; by K&R (no notebook entry); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Sarcophagus catalogue 237)

Bibliography

Published by Waddington, LBW 1648, whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 556, no. 430, Kaibel 429, Grégoire, Rec. 279, Cabrol, Dict. vol. 14, col. 796, no. 24; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 601, whence Peek, GVAK 28, no. 12, SEG 30, 1256, BE 1982:359, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 400 , Steinepigramme 02/09/93.

Photographs

View (1981)
Detail (1981)