Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.111. Invocation(?)

Description: 'Sur un pied-droit' (Texier); it is not clear whether this refers to an upright support in the wall or to a loose column plinth .

Text: No description.

Letters: 'Tracée en caractères byzantins trés incorrects'. (Texier)

Date: Fourth century or later (content).

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-East: 'non loin de cette porte'—that is, the north-east gate (Texier).

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Findspot (1835)

Interpretive

Θ(ε)ὲ βοήθι τῷ κόσμο
σέμερον κὲ ΝΙΑ
κὲ ΑΥΡΕΝΠΙΣΙΕΓΩ

Diplomatic

ΘΕΒΟΗΘΙΤΩΚΟΣΜΟ
ΣΕΜΕΡΟΝΚΕΝΙΑ
ΚΕΑΥΡΕΝΠΙΣΙΕΓΩ

French translation

Translation source: Texier, 1839

Seigneur, porte secours au monde aujourd'hui et toujours (?)

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, ALA

God help the world today, and and .

Bibliography

Transcription: Texier, 1835

Publication: Texier, 1839 159 , whence CIG IV, 1856 8919 , Ramsay, 1897 425 , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 250 , , Roueché, ALA 141 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 639 , ALA 2004 141; IAph2007 11.111.

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