Description: A white marble door post.
Text: A cross has been carefully sculpted (H. 0.31), and the surface cut away around it; it is very similar to that on the facing door-post (1.21), but not so well centred. Text ii is arranged around the oval recessed area surrounding it; text i is some way above, text iii some way below. There are several other, less substantial, crosses inscribed on this door-post.
Letters: i: a cross monogram, H. 0.17. ii: letters: 0.025-0.04. iii: letters: 0.015-0.025; lightly cut and partially erased.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later. (lettering, location)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Atrium, west door, on the south face of the northern door-post.
Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
i-ii: i was printed back to front by Reinach. ii was correctly transcribed by Fellows and Texier, but Reinach omitted Κ(υρίο)υ, whence Grégoire restored Ανάληψης Πέτρο(υ)
iii: Reinach gave only line 1; he and Grégoire read at the end Τροφίμ̣(ῳ).
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
ii: The ascension of the Lord
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(i): Petros.
(ii): Ascension of the Lord.
(iii): Lord help your servant Ro[---]
Bibliography
Transcription: ii: Texier, 1835; i and ii: Fellows, 1840; i, ii and iii: Gaudin, 1904 26 (i and ii), 27 (iii), New York University expedition
Publication: ii: Texier, 1839 plate 156 ; i and ii: Fellows, 184171, 72; i-iii: Reinach, 1906 204 (i and ii), 205 (iii) , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 260, 257bis ; Roueché, ALA 118i, ii, iii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 642, 641, 643 , ALA 2004 118, IAph2007 1.22.
Images
Fig. 1. Overview (Dumbarton Oaks, 1971)
Fig. 2. Overview (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. i. Text (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. ii. Text (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 5. iii. Text (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 6. View of temple west door, from west (Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 7. View from west (M. Roueché, 2004) (Roueché, 2004)