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Funerary stele of Papas and Aphrodeisia
Type of monument
Funerary stele.
Location
Ladık (Laodikeia): at Gâvur Mezarı, above Kör Kuyu, 500m above the village on the slope of a hill, facing east; newly excavated from the ruins of a church.
Description
Blue and white marblestele, with the upper and lower mouldings removed and the left edge recut as part of a string-moulding for the church (no facsimile). Inscription on inset panel, with plain pilasters to left and right; the area above the panel rough-picked.
Papas son of Manes, for himself and his own wife Aphrodeisia, while they were still living, in memoriam.
Commentary
The mason was illiterate. After the inscription was cut, some of the more egregious errors were corrected by the erasure of incorrectly inscribed vowels in lines 3, 4, and 6. In line 5, the first three letters of the line were erased and the letters alpha and phi lightly inscribed in place of the first two letters. I do not know what the mason intended by the letters tau and alpha in line 2.