Description: A smooth white marble column drum (H. 1,42, diam. 0.60).
Text: Painted in red paint on a white background, below the upper edge.
Letters: 0.045; simple; square sigma. There are some traces of further painted decoration.
Date: Fifth/sixth century (lettering, findspot).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: re-used in the Byzantine defence wall constructed across the eastern end of the Theatre.
Original location: Theatre Baths (?)
Last recorded location: Museum.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
May he face the tribunal of Christ and the eternal judgement, he who steals anything at all from this place.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 72.238
Publication: Roueché, ALA 111 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 763 , ALA 2004 111, IAph2007 8.607.
Images
Fig. 1. Monument (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)
Fig. 2. Left side (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. Right side (M. Roueché, 1976)