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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 block without moulding or decoration, chipped along all edges and missing the lower right corner (1.14 × 0.265 × 0.55).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face, which is itself chipped approximately in the centre. Line 1 is very close to the upper edge, suggesting a composite monument.

Letters

Probably second century; well-cut in distinctive non-monumental forms, designed with a ruler and compass and cut with monumental techniques; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; cursive feaures in alpha; ligatures: ΠΝ, l.2, ΗΝ and ΗΜ in l.4; ave. 0.035

Date

second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἀθανάτοισιν ὅμοια πόρες κλυτὰ ἔργα πόληι ἥρως εὐσεβίης θεοτέρπεος ἔνπνοος εἰκών τοὔνεκα νῦν νάεις Εὐπείθιε καὶ πόλον ἄστρων ψυχὴν ἀμπνεύσας ὅτε Μαρτίου ἦμαρ ἔπαιζες
Apparatus

l. 1, ΕΡΓ damaged

l. 2, ΕΝΠ damaged

L.3: ΑΙ damaged. Letters: after Κ, the shadow of a triangle (Α, Λ) and then very little space (Ι, Υ, ?Ρ). Perhaps: Εὐπείθι ἑκά[ς] πόλον ἄτων

l.4, ΜΑΡ damaged

In principle the text could have begun on an upper block, but these four lines of verse are complete in themselves.

Translation

No English translation yet (2007)

Commentary

We have no other Eupeithios so far attested at Aphrodisias in the Roman period, but one (? a sophist) honoured in ? the fourth/fifth century ( 5.120).

It is standard for the pious to be thought of as inhabiting a special and honoured place; here the idea is carried farther, presenting Eupeithios as god-like.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.1)

Bibliography

Published by R.R..R. Smith, 'Aphrodisias 1992', KST XV-2 (1994), 355, whence BullEp 1996.385; from Reynolds, Steinepigramme 02/09/12, whence SEG 48 1998.1327.

Photographs

Face (1992)
Face (1992)