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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 building block without moulding (0.948 × 0.27 × 0.36), broken below and at the right end; surface damaged at lower left corner.

Description of Text

Lightly inscribed on a roughly dressed surface, worn all over. The text certainly began on a block above.

Letters

Non-monumental, hand designed eithout ruler or compass; cursive sigma, epsilon, omega, ?II cent.; 0.015-2.0.

Date

Second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition τῶν ἀρετῶν πολλὸν ἐπαυρόμενην καὶ δέ μας ἐνθάδε κεῖται ἐπὶ χθονὸς αὐτὰρ ὁ θυμος ἔδραμεν ἐς μάκαρας πολλον ἀγαλλόμενος ΓΕΔΥΕ μυρόμενον ποθινὸν πόσιν ΗΛΛΡΑΤΕ. ΝΑΕωΤ ΤΙ χρόνων τετράτης οὐκ ἐνέβη Λ ΟΝ ΛΙΝ
Apparatus

l. 3? ἀγαλλόμενο[ς]?

The metre suggests that the opening line is not the first (it seems to be a pentameter) the text presumably started on a block above

Translation

Commentary

Locations

City, South-east: in spoils dump to the East of the South Agora, Agora Gate Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.2)

Bibliography

Published by R.R..R. Smith, 'Aphrodisias 1992', KST XV-2 (1994), 355, whence BullEp 1996.385.

Photographs

Face (1992)