Description: A white marble masonry block, broken to the right (w: 0.95 × h: 1.15 × d: 0.30), with holes for clamps below the upper edge. If, as seems likely, the large cross was central to the block, the original width of the block was 2m, and it extended to the corner of the bastion.
Text: Disposed on either side of a large inscribed cross (h: 0.85, original w: 0.50).
Letters: 0.015-0.035; clear, cursive; in line 3.Cross as an abbreviation mark over θ (εο) ῦ .
Date: Fifth century or later (lettering, content).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): 'dans un mur du jardin' (Paris and Holleaux); 'Maison Hussein Chaous' (Gaudin); re-used on the southern face of a bastion.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
He who throws earth on the wall has anathema from the 318 fathers as an enemy of God.
Bibliography
Transcription: Paris and Holleaux, 1884; Gaudin, 1904 10; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition.
Publication: Paris and Holleaux, 1885 13 , whence Ramsay, 1897 429 ; Reinach, 1906 18 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 248 ; MAMA 8 428 and plate; Roueché, ALA 112 and plate xxix, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 762 , ALA 2004 112, IAph2007 12.328.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)