<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType">verse</rs>, for Asklepiodotos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A white marble funerary stele, cut in one piece, in the form of a pyramid surmounting a rectangular base (0.95 × 0.50 × 0.50); all four sides of the pyramid and of the base are cut as panels within moulding. The top of the pyramid is broken away, but there are traces of a hole which would have held an insertion at the apex.

Description of Text

Line 1 is inscribed on the front panel of the pyramid, lines 2-3 within the front panel of the base.

Description of Letters

0034.045; clear cut and irregular; apostrophes in lines 3 and 6.

Date

Late fifth century (prosopography).

Edition οὐ θά νεν οὐ δ' Ἀχέ ροντοςἴδεν ῥό ον, ἀλλ' ἐ ν Ὀλύμπωι Ἀσκληπιόδο τος τείρεεσι συνφέρετε οὗτος ὅτις δώμησε καὶ ἀγλαὰ πολ λὰ τιθήνηι
Apparatus

The monument appears to be complete below; it must be assumed that it originally stood on another feature on which the last line of the epigram was inscribed.

l. 9, ΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ, corrected by Cormack and Robert.

Translation He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in Olympus Asklepiodotos is among the stars—he who also built many splendid things for his motherland
Commentary

See 11.68, and discussion at V.8.

Locations

City, Village: reused supporting a pillar of a verandah, in a house subsequently demolished.. Unknown.. Museum (1994).

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.12).

Bibliography

Published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 487, whence Hellenica 13, 170-171, BE 1966.399; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 54 and plate xiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 731, Steinepigramme 02/09/06.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché), publications

Photographs

Face (1980)
Face (1980)
Left side (2004)
Right side (2004)
Top (2004)