Description: A white marble door post.
Text: The texts are grouped - i above, ii and iii to the right, iv to the left - around a cross carefully sculpted (h: 0.31) in the centre of the door-post, with the surface of the stone cut away around it; iii was certainly inscribed before the cross was cut.
Letters: i: av. 0.03-0.04; the first line is a monogram, 0.21. ii: 0.025-0.035, partially erased; last two letters of 1. 1 above line; a cross superimposed on I. I. iii: 0.05; very rough; lost at left when large cross was sculpted. iv: 0.04, rough; above a cross, 0.14, in a circle.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, Atrium west door, cut on the inner, north, face of the southern door.
Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
i.1: Θεόφιλ(ος) Reinach, 1906 ; earlier editors could interpret nothing.
i.3: μασ[α]ύρη CIG IV, 1856; Μασ[σ]άρη Ramsay, 1897; Μαζλαρη Reinach, 1906 ; it was Grégoire who recognized the abbreviation mark standing for κέ and resolved the text, reading Θεοφίλῳ accordingly
in line 1.
ii.1: κ ⸢ω⸣ νστα[ν]τ[ῖνος?] Reinach, 1906; κονστα[ντῖνος] Grégoire, IGC, 1922
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
i. Lord, help your servant Theophilos, butcher.
ii. Konstantinos, deacon.
Bibliography
Transcription: i: Texier, 1835; Fellows, 1840; i and ii: Gaudin, 1904 28; i-iv: New York University expedition
Publication: i: Texier, 1839 Plate 156 ; Fellows, 1841 72 , from both of which CIG IV, 1856 8905 , Ramsay, 1897 428 ; i and ii: Reinach, 1906 206 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 261a,261b ; i-iv: Roueché, ALA 117i-iv and plate xxxi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 638, 644, 882, 883, ALA 2004 117, IAph2007 1.21.
Images
Fig. 1. Overview (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. i. Text (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. ii. Text (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. iii. Text (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 5. iv. Text (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 6. View of temple west door, from west (Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 7. View from west (Roueché, 2004)