Description: Four fragments, two of which join, from a series of long, slightly concave white marble cornice blocks. a: two joining fragments, with left edge surviving, w: 0.76 × d: 0.355; b: apparently a complete block, w: 0.535 × d: 0.39; c: complete at right, perhaps at left, w: 0.485 × d: 0.36.
Text: Inscribed in one line along the slightly concave edge (0.16).
Letters: 0.08; tall and clear-cut, with triangular trenches.
Date: Sixth century CE, or later
Findspot: Aphrodisias: a: Martyrion: section 5, south wall b: Temple/Church: 'narthex, côté nord' (Gaudin); by the NYU expedition; c: ' Geira, Haus des Ishiklar, hoch oben eingemauert' (Kubitschek), 'in a house wall' (MAMA), stray find (NYU).
Original location: Martyrion or Temple/Church?
Last recorded location: Museum.
Apparatus
b: ΘΕΟΔΕΙΜΟΝΑ Reinach, 1906; θεοδέγμονα Grégoire, IGC, 1922
c: ἀνεθήκατο Grégoire, IGC, 1922; [ἀ]νίθηκα τὸ Roueché, ALA; [---]ΝΙ θῆκα τὸ or θήκατο Feissel, 1991; [---]ΝΙ θήκατο Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(a): From Mary, whose child was God, of harsh [---]
(b): [---] the God-receiving garden [---]
(c): [---] I set the house.
Bibliography
Transcription: b: Gaudin, 1904, 69; c: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.V.6, Reichel, 1893, R.I.30; Calder, 1934; a, b and c: New York University expedition in 1961 (notebook 4, 15), 1962 and 1969 (a: 62.437, c: 69.360)
Publication: b: Reinach, 1906 207 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 263; c: Grégoire, IGC, 1922, from Reichel, 264bis, MAMA 8 603 ; a-c Roueché, ALA 100 and plate xxvi, whence Feissel, 1991 372, n.25, McCabe, PHI, 1996 709 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/97 , ALA 2004 100, IAph2007 7.2.
Images
Fig. 1. A: Left end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. A: Right end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. A: Assembled (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. B: Face (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969)
Fig. 5. c: Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 6. c: Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6
Fig. 7. c: Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30