[ἔνθ'? ἴ]δε ναὸν τ̣ῶν ἁγ̣ίων μαρτ̣ύρων
Βαρ̣βαρ̣αϲ τε φῆμι κ[αὶ Ἀ]ναϲτασίαϲ ((Cross))( vac. 3)
Description: Three white marble fragments which join to form two blocks of a composite lintel (h: 0.15-0.18 × d: 0.31-0.35) with moulding along the front and the surviving right edge; probably only a small fragment is lost to the left—the total surviving w: 1.50.
Text: Inscribed in one line along the uppermost fascia of the moulding, which is chipped away above.
Letters: 0.025.
Date: Ninth to tenth centuries CE (lettering, metre)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: One block found during the excavation of the Theatre in 1969, another a stray find in 1970, a third excavated in the Sebasteion portico in 1979.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum.
[ἔνθ'? ἴ]δε ναὸν τ̣ῶν ἁγ̣ίων μαρτ̣ύρων
Βαρ̣βαρ̣αϲ τε φῆμι κ[αὶ Ἀ]ναϲτασίαϲ ((Cross))( vac. 3)
[.....]ΔΕΝΑΟΝ.ΩΝΑ.ΙΩΝΜΑΡ.ΥΡΩΝ
ΒΑ.ΒΑ.ΑϹΤΕΦΗΜΙΚ[...]ΝΑϹΤΑΣΙΑϹ †
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
Here [see?] the church of the holy martyrs, Barbara, I mean, and Anastasia.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, 69.354, 70.224, 79.190
Publication: Roueché, ALA 108 and plate xxix, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 612 , ALA 2004 108, IAph2007 8.276.
Images
Fig. 1. Left end fragment (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Centre fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Right end fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. Fragments 1 and 2 together (M. Roueché, 1980)