Description: Four matching white marble column capitals. On each of the capitals, one side (back) is left plain, and there are crosses on either side. They all show signs of having been re-used subsequently.
Text: Inscribed on the face of each capital.
Letters: Monogram cut within a circle.
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries. (monogram)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Martyrion, re-used.
Original location: Martyrion
Last recorded location: Museum (M. Roueché, 2004)
Apparatus
In the first edition it was implied that all four capitals were identical; in fact the fourth does not have the same monogram
as the other three.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
i-iii: John Nesbitt suggested, on the basis of the photographs, the resolution Συμβατικίου, 'of Symbatikios'
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: An inferior account published by Roueché, ALA 101 and plate xxvii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 614, 615, 616, 617 ; revised version ALA 2004 101, IAph2007 7.16.
Images
Fig. 1. i. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. i. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 3. i. right side (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 4. i. face (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 5. i. left side (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 6. i. back (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 7. i. detail (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 8. i. face (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 9. ii. back (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 10. ii. right side (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 11. ii. centre (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 12. ii. detail (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 13. iii. left (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 14. iii. back (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 15. iii. centre (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 16. iii. detail (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 17. iv. Right face (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 18. iv. Face (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 19. iv. left side (Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 20. iv. back (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 21. iv. detail (Roueché, 2008)
Fig. 22. Drawing of Monogram (i-iii)