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C.615. Funerary inscription for Epaphrodite

Description: Triangular-headed stele of limestone, broken at the top, (w: 0.34 x h: 0.47 x d: 0.21)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (w: 0.22 x h: 0.34); there is a rosette in relief in the triangle, and a swag with pendant ribbons, a comb and a spindle below the text.
Letters: 0.015 - 0.02, lunate epsilon, very rough.

Date: Too rough to date.

Findspot: Cyrene: Necropolis, precise location unspecified; photographed in 1925
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Ἐπαφροδεί-
τη εὐψύχι

Diplomatic

ΕΠΑΦΡΟΔΕΙ
ΤΗΕΥΨΥΧΙ

Italian translation

Translation source: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936

Epafrodita, ave pia anima.

English translation

Translation source: Thorn, 2009

Epaphrodite, hail pious spirit.

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Epaphrodite, be well!

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, DAI, 1933-1936, 126 (118), pl. XXXV, fig. 81, whence SEG 9.238, PHI 324088, Thorn, 2009, 142.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).