<rs type="textType"><rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType">verse</rs></rs> for Stephanos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A white marble plaque (0.295 × 0.53 × 0.04), with the back left rough; chipped at upper and lower edges.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the initial Σ of Στέφανος was cut above the line.

Description of Letters

Av. 0.02-0.025.

Date

Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre).

Edition σῆμα τόδε Στεφάνοιο τὸν ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀκούεις εὐσεβίης γεγαῶτα διά κτορον ἤπιον ἄνδρα ἀκμὴν ἐς βιότοιο τὸν ἥρπασε λοίμιος αἶσα
Translation This is the grave of Stephanos, whom you hear among the living to have been a servant of piety, a gentle man; in the prime of life the doom of disease snatched him away.
Commentary

See discussion at IX.20.

Locations

Neighbouring settlement, Palamuçuk: north of Aphrodisias.. Unknown.. Museum..

History of Recording

Found by the NYU expedition during survey work in 1979/80.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 155 and plate xxxviii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 737, Steinepigramme 02/09/31.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1980)