Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.905. Panel fragment: funerary(?)

Description: Lower part of a white marble panel (w: 0.315 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.06), with sides and lower edges surviving.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Clear and irregular, 0.025-0.035; cross-bar for abbreviation.

Date: Fifth-sixth century or later. (lettering, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Acropolis: Trench 3, Str.2.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Museum.

Interpretive

[------]
πόλεω̣[ϲ?..]
ϹΡΟΝ Χρ(ιϲτοῦ) κο-
νητρ̣ον ((Cross))

Diplomatic

[------]
ΠΟΛΕ.[.··]
ϹΡΟΝΧΡΚΟ
ΝΗΤ.ΟΝ

Apparatus

2: The initial Ϲ appears to have been damaged, but this may be an attempt to correct it to Γ. Κ is apparently corrected from Ϲ
3: Ρ appears to have been corrected from another letter, perhaps Α.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

[--- of the] city(?) [---] of Christ, place of service(?).

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 67.83

Publication: Roueché, ALA 226, and plate xlvi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 758 , ALA 2004 226, IAph2007 8.905.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)