Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

16.128. Christian prayer

Description: White marble paving slab, which is very worn: no measurements

Text: Graffito on the lower part of the face

Letters: 0.04; cross, 0.06

Date: Fourth-sixth centuries CE (textual context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Martyrion, on the threshold of the central apse, on the paving at the north end, at right angles.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((Cross)) κύριο̣ϲ̣ Φ
Ε̣ΠΗ ( vac. 1)ΟΥΤ [..]

Diplomatic

ΚΥΡΙ..Φ
.ΠΗ  ΟΥΤ[··]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

Lord . . .

Commentary

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 93.79, I 93.6

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)