Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

16.136. Christian dedication?

Description: Fragment, broken at both ends and chipped above, of a white marble rectangular block (w: 0.37 × h: 0.135 × d: 0.30), perhaps cut down for re-use.

Text: Inscribed on the face, perhaps only in one line.

Letters: No measurements; the cross cut with a double line, and the bowl of a rho added; there is also a lightly cut cross above it.

Date: Fifth-seventh century CE (lettering, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: West portico, N.P.S., in topsoil.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[---] ((Chi-Rho/Labarum)) ((Cross)) [---]
[------]

Diplomatic

[---] [---]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

Not usefully translatable

Commentary

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.161

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment a (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)