iAph130507 (Q3689)
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Funerary verse for a girl, Thea[ . . .
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Funerary verse for a girl, Thea[ . . .
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[The] soul, leaving the body [...][has gone], released from care, to the holy [place (or) gathering] of the blessed ones [...][in the] eighteenth [year and] fourth [month] [...]. Entirely fleeting was Thea- [(or) the glimpse we had of her] [...] [Her] descent was from both Rome and Alexandria [...] Beautiful, gentle, loveable, discreet, [...] a bastion of prudence [was] the girl whom [...] [Her] soul is living with the immortals [...] being ashamed to bear a mortal [body].
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2004
Originally published in Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions (2004)
Charlotte Roueché
London
