Description: Twenty-two white marble fragments, some joining, from the outer rim of a large circular feature (outer 3 m, inner 2.55). The blocks were designed to be seen from below, and have elaborately ornamented trapezoidal panels on the underside (each 0.98 long); the panels each have a different pattern, which enables the grouping together of several fragments which do not join. The blocks are slightly convex, and the outer edge slopes outwards from bottom to top (H. 0.16); on it are a series of bosses with an ornamental cross (0.40 apart).
Text: The text runs in one line between the bosses, with a continuous line incised above and below it.
Letters: av. 0.09; deep triangular trenches; elongated and ornate. Colon for stop in a after φύϲιν, and in b: semi-colon in a after ΡΙϹ; horizontal line over abbreviation in k.
Date: Tenth century CE (architecture, terminology)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: various locations, over several years.
Original location: Temple/Church.
Last recorded location: Museum.
Apparatus
f.1: Perhaps αὐλ[η ---]
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(a): [---] nature [---] leader of angels [---]
(b): [---] body of the dead, by life [---]
(c): [---] priest [---]
(e): [---] Christ [---]
(k): [---] (scil. o) God [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 30 (part of a, and k); a-j: New York University expedition in 1962, 1963, 1964, or recorded as stray finds (62.104, 62.110, 62.174, 62.175, 62.176, 62.177, 62.178, 62.196, 62.197, 62.198, 62.199, 63.637, 64.129, and unnumbered).
Publication: a. (part) and k: Reinach, 1906 211 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 259 ; a-j: Roueché, ALA 99 and plates xxv, xxvi (a. and c.), whence Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/98 , ALA 2004 99; IAph2007 1.37.
Images
Fig. 1. a. Fragment 1 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 2. a. Fragment 1, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 3. a. Fragment 2 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 4. a. Fragment 2, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 5. a. Fragment 3 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 6. a. Fragment 3, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 7. a. Fragment 4 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 8. a. Fragment 5 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 9. a. Fragment 6 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 10. b. Fragment 1 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 11. b. Fragment 1, underside (1969)
Fig. 12. b. Fragment 3 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 13. b. Fragment 3, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 14. b. Fragment 4 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 15. b. Fragment 4, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 16. b. Assembled, left end (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 17. b. Assembled, right end (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 18. c. Fragment 1 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 19. c. Fragment 1, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 20. c. Fragment 2 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 21. c. Fragment 3 (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 22. c. Fragment 3, underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 23. c. Assembled (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 24. d. Face (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 25. e. Face (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 26. f. Face (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 27. g. Face (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 28. g. Underside (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 29. h and i. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 30. j. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)