Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.508. Heliodoros, builder or donor(?)

Description: Fragment from a blue-grey marble lintel or cornice block (w: 0.14 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.38) with a moulded profile.

Text: Inscribed in one line on one fascia (H. 0.05) of front moulding.

Letters: 0.025; clear and irregular; scroll for abbreviation; ΩΡ in ligature.

Date: Fifth to seventh centuries CE (lettering, terminology)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-west area: Found among the ruins of Southwest church, some way outside the southwestern stretch of the city walls

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

( vac. ) ((Cross)) Ἡλιόδωροϲ ὁ ἐλάχ(ιϲτοϲ) [---]

Diplomatic

       ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟϹΟΕΛΑΧ[---]

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

Heliodoros, the least of men, [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1973, and in 2008 C010

Publication: Roueché, ALA 106 and plate xxviii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 611 , ALA 2004 106, IAph2007 13.508.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (NYU, 2008)