Description: Blue marble column.
Text: The inscription is cut, with a fine point, 0.26 above the lower end of the column, and the inscribed area measures 0.43 × 0.23. Above the text is a depiction of a Christian sanctuary: two spiral columns support an arch, with a pointed roof surmounted by a cross. From the arch hangs a lamp, flanked by two candles and two birds. The candles stand on a rail between the columns, from which hang curtains, looped back to reveal a large cross, flanked by an angel and a saint. Two birds are perched on the capitals of the columns. The design and the letters have been cut with a fine-pointed implement.
Letters: 0.008-0.017.
Date: Fourth century CE or later. (content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre Baths, East portico, west side. Cut on the first column from the north.
Original location: Theatre Baths, East portico
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
7: Perhaps Κομεων.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
Lord, the God who is above the heavens, help and provide for your servant Cerecoccius(?), also called Curius(?).
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Lord, the God who is above the heavens, help and provide for your servant Kerekokkios(?), also called Koureos(?).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: Roueché, ALA 142 and plate xxxiv, whence (as from no.138) McCabe, PHI, 1996 77 ; ALA 2004 142; IAph2007 8.603.
Images
Fig. 1. View of portico (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Right side view (Mehmet Ali Döğenci)
Fig. 4. Theatre Baths,east portico: western colonnade (Roueché, 2004)