Description: A column plinth; the surface is slightly chipped, and broken away at the right.
Text: On the upper, flat fascia of the moulding.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; simple; scroll for abbreviation. A cross has been superimposed on the second line, cut over Β; a similar cross was cut, presumably at the same time, on the socle of the column above.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (location, lettering, terminology).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: South aisle, the fourth column from the east, on the south face of the base, cut on the upper moulding.
Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
1: After Θεοδώρου, Reinach read Κ̣[---]ΕΤΗΣ, whence Grégoire restored κ[(αὶ) Ἀρ]ετῆς; but the first letter is definitely a round
one (Ο or Ϲ, Ε).
2: Kubitschek read another cross at the beginning of line 2, probably a double reading of the Τ. Reinach, misled by the superimposed
cross, read τῆς θυ[γ]ατρός.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
Prayer of Theodoros, son of [---]ete(?), the most pious deaconess.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.16, Abklatsch 17; Gaudin, 1904 31; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 210 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 258 ; Roueché, ALA 114 and plate xxx, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 593 , ALA 2004 114; IAph2007 1.20.
