Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.516. Text at an entrance

Description: Two blue marble columns (h: 0.85 × diam: 0.53; ii: h: 3.62).

Text: i: Inscribed at 0.37 above base. ii: repaired in antiquity at the right. Inscribed at 0.96 above the lower end.

Letters: Irregular, 0.03-0.04, lunate; very worn.

Date: Sixth-tenth century CE (monogram)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-west: field c. 200 m north-west of the Temple-Church, half-buried.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
(ΑΒΚΟ)
ii
ἐϲτὶν ἡ εἴϲοδοϲ τοῦ
Κ[.]Ι[.]Λ̣ΟΘ[.]ΑΤΑ[.]ΟΥ
Λ̣ΟΝΟϹ [το]ύτου [...]

Diplomatic

i
ii
ΕϹΤΙΝΗΕΙϹΟΔΟϹΤΟΥ
Κ[·]Ι[·].ΟΘ[·]ΑΤΑ[·]ΟΥ
.ΟΝΟϹ[..]ΥΤΟΥ[···]

Apparatus

ii.2-3: Perhaps [κ]ατὰ [τ]οῦ [πυ]λο͂νοϲ [το]ύτου; but we cannot make out any traces of letters before Λ̣ΟΝΟϹ in line 3.

Translation

ii. The entrance of the [ . . . ] is [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA 219 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 879, 880 , ALA 2004 219, IAph2007 11.516.

Images

Fig. 1. Column i (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 2. Column ii (M. Roueché, 1978)

Fig. 3. Drawing of Monogram