Description: A white marble head , broken off from a lost statue, of a bearded male, probably of the first half of the fifth century.
Text: The text is cut on the top of the head, on the smooth area immediately behind the ridge of curly hair crowning the face, to be read from the front.
Letters: Carefully cut, but varying in size from 0.01-0.015 in the first line to 0.0175 to 0.02 (beta) and 0.028 (eta) in the second line.
Date: Fourth to fifth centuries CE (content, location)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Excavated by Gaudin.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels (1988)
Apparatus
1: perhaps Χ (ριστὸν) Μ (αρία) Γ (εννᾷ)
Translation
M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist) . God, help.
Bibliography
Transcription: Εxcavated by Gaudin: on the provenance see Erim, 1967 236
Publication: Cumont, 1913 51, no. 41, whence , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 248bis ; Erim and Reynolds, 1979 204 , whence SEG32.1108 , LSA 176; Roueché, ALA 145 and Plate xxxiii whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 655 , ALA 2004 145; Smith, 2002 ; IAph2007 15.102.
Images
Fig. 1. Detail (M. Roueché, 1988)