Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.122. Donor prayer(?) from a church

Description: White marble fragment (w: 0.08 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.07), from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth and vertical. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.192, 15.359.

Text: Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.

Letters: Cursive omega; ave. 0.022.

Date: Fifth/sixth century or later. (lettering, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: dump of stones west of the baths.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum.

Interpretive

[--- ὑπὲρ ἀφέσεως?] ἁ̣μαρτιῶν ( vac. 1) Τ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---...........].ΜΑΡΤΙΩΝ  .[---]

Apparatus

The final letter may be a ((Cross))

Translation

[---] sins [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, 94.33

Publication: , ALA 2004 240, whence SEG 54.1044; IAph2007 5.122.

Images

Fig. 1. View of block (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)