Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004


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54. Funerary verse, for Asclepiodotus

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Text

     οὐ θά |νεν οὐ |δ' Ἀχέ | ροντος | (5) ἴδεν ῥό |ον, ἀλλ' ἐ |ν Ὀλύμπωι |
        Ἀσκληπιόδο | τος τείρεσι | (10) συνφέρετε, |
     οὗτος ὅτις | δώμησε καὶ | ἀγλαὰ πολ |λὰ τιθήνηι |
        [...]

Translation

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

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.8. ΤΕΙΡΕΕΙ, corrected by Cormack and Robert.

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

For Asclepiodotus see also 53; see discussion at V.8.

For the funerary epigram see discussion at IX.15, IX.19.

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