Description: Seven blue-grey marble fragments, h: 0.16 × d: 0.20 from the crowning feature of a balustrade: the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth, tapering inwards. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16. a: three joining pieces, total w: 0.29; b: three joining pieces, total w: 0.30; c: w: 0.11.
Text: Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters: 0.025; elongated.
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries. (location, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: six fragments in Sector T.XV, one stray find.
Original location: Temple/Church: ?crowning the bema/chancel barrier.
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
a. [--- to] all that love him [---]
b. [--- help?] Theodoretos and Kyriakos [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 62.105, 62.201, and unnumbered,
Publication: Roueché, ALA 93 and plate xxiv, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 649, ALA 2004 93; IAph2007 1.13.
Images
Fig. 1. a: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. b: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. c: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)