Description: White marble cruciform font (w: 1.05 × h: 0.60).
Text: Inscribed on the upper rim, w: 0.07.
Letters: Clearly cut; 0.045-0.55; lunate sigma.
Date: First- third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Antiocheia: from a church site north-east of Yenice; brought by villagers
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
You who read this, pray for Michael, unworthy bishop of Antiocheia (scil. and) citizen. Unless you are reborn through water and the spirit, you may not enter the kingdom of the heavens.
Commentary
ἐὰν μὴ ἀναγεννηθῆτε δι’ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. Pseudo Clement 18.17
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Images
Fig. 1. First segment (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 2. First segment (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. Second segment (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 4. Third segment (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 5. Fourth segment (M. Roueché, 1983)