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92. Prayer of Theodoretus and Cyriacus

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: Four blue-grey marble fragments (0.15 × 0.975 (total) × 0.20) which join, from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth, tapering inwards. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 93, 94, 95, 96.
  • Text: Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
  • Letters: 0.035-0.04; elongated, lunate.
  • Date: Fifth/sixth century (location, script).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

  [...]ιὴλ βοήθησον τοῖς δούλοις σου Θεοδωρήτῳ κ(αὶ) Κυριακῷ cross leaf vac.

Translation

[...]iel help your servants Theodoretus and Cyriacus

Photographs

Left end fragment (1970) Right end fragment (1972) Assembled fragments (1977)
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Commentary

See discussion at VII.10.

For the history of the Temple-Church see VII.4.

Locations

  • Found: Temple-Church: Three fragments found in sectors xv and xiii, str. 1; one stray find.
  • Original: Temple-Church: ?Crowning the chancel barrier.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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