Description: Two joining fragments of a white marble block, perhaps a doorpost, (w: 0.37 × h: 2.27 × d: 0.45); The right side is damaged.
Text: Graffito on the face, above (line 1), to the right of (lines 2 and 3) and below (line 4) a carefully designed cross (0.18).
Letters: Broad, shallow, 0.04, ο 0.01.
Date: Fifth - seventh century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, loose in a dump to the west
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
4: A monogram: perhaps the Theotokos, or perhaps the name of someone to be helped
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
Christ, help ? Mar[ia
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Baths 16A
Images
Fig. 1. Upper fragment (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Lower fragment (M. Roueché, 1973)