Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.540. Dedicator's(?) prayer

Description: An Ionic column capital, lying half buried. No measurements.

Text: Inscribed on two consecutive faces of the upper moulding (abacus).

Letters: No description; perhaps a small circle for stop.

Date: Early or middle Byzantine

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: very near the site of 12.516.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Findspot (1842)

Interpretive

[---] Λ̣Θ [..] ΟΗΒΑϹΙ [.] ΙΑϹΟΥ ((stop)) Τ [..] ΝΟ̣ [---]

Diplomatic

[---][··]ΟΗΒΑϹΙ[·]ΙΑϹΟΥ Τ[··]Ν.[---]

Apparatus

1: Bailie suggested phrases from the Lord's Prayer: [Ἐ]λ̣θ[έτ]ω̣ ἡ βασι[λ]ία σου· τ[ο ὄ]νο[μα σου ἁγιασθήτω, followed by Grégoire || [...]λθ[..]οηβασι[.]ιαξοψ stop τ[..]νο[...] ALA 2004

Translation

No words determinable

Bibliography

Transcription: Bailie, 1842: see Bailie, 1843 50

Publication: Bailie, 1843 50, Bailie, 1846 72 , whence Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1649 , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 251 , Ramsay, 1897 423 , ; Roueché, ALA 109 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 640 ; ALA 2004 109, IAph2007 12.540.

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