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158. Funerary verse, for Macedonius

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: Left side, with upper and lower edges surviving, of a rectangular white marble slab (0.27 × 0.265 × 0.03).
  • Text: Inscribed on the face, which is polished, and has been prepared with a lightly-cut grid, within which the letters are cut, one letter in each square.
  • Letters: Irregular but clear, av. 0.025; epsilon is both lunate (ll. 2, 3) and square (ll. 4, 5). Two dots for stop, 1.4.
  • Date: Fifth or sixth century (content, metre).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

  cross ἔνθα Μακη[δόνιος ...]
  ετται βιοτ[ο... ...]-
  εύσας αρθλ[... ?ἀνθρ]-
  ώπων stop ἐμβο[?λ...]
vac. cross ελεθω[...]
  vacat

Translation

Here [lies] Mace[donius...] life [...] ?of men [...].

Apparatus

5: [τ]ελέθω cj. Feissel (1991), 376.

Photographs

Face (1985)
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Commentary

See discussion at IX.23, and, for verse inscriptions, IX.15.

Locations

  • Found: Stray find.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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