Description: Fragment, with back and upper edge surviving (w: 0.34 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.105), from a white marble cornice block; there is a boss, broken away, at the left.
Text: Inscribed in one line on a smoothed band which runs along the face above the boss.
Letters: Ave. 0.04, Ο 0.025; angular.
Date: Fifth/sixth century or later
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Narthex (Gaudin); exonarthex, Sector T.XVI (NYU).
Original location: Temple/Church
Last recorded location: Museum.
Apparatus
1: Reinach read the final sigma, which is now lost.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 71; New York University expedition 62.361
Publication: Reinach, 1906 208 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 256 ; Roueché, ALA 98 and plate xxv, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 610, ALA 2004 98; IAph2007 1.18.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)