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132. Graffiti: names and prayers
Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Fragment from a white marble balustrade, broken in two,
with a cross in relief on one side (0.36 × 0.31 × 0.155); the upper edge has a boss protruding
from it, and a polished surface, on which are several finely cut
graffiti. Description of text: i at upper edge; ii below i; iii
along lower edge. There are further traces of letters.
- Text:
- Letters:
Av. c. 0.005.
- Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location).
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[...] τ(οῦ) [...] |
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Θεοφύλακτος τ(οῦ) ργλχ [...]
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Γαιόργηος cross
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cross cross Γεοργηίου Κ(ύρι)ε cross βω(ήθι) .
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Γεορ vac.
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Ἰω(αννης)
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μ(ήτη)ρ [θ(εο)]ῦ . Μιχ(αὴλ) τ(οῦ) Παλμα Κω(?νσταντῖνος) τ(οῦ) βτη |
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Μηχαήλ
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Translation
i. Theophylact.
ii. George. son of George. Lord help. George.
iii. John. Mother of God. Michael ?son of Palmas.
?Constantine ... Michael.
Photographs
| Face (1980)
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Fragment with underside (1980)
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Underside of block (1985)
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Commentary
See discussion at VIII.13.
Locations
- Found:
Temple-Church.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition; read and measured by J.M.
Reynolds in 1966, since when some of the surface has been broken away,
and the block broken in two.
- Bibliography:
Published Roueché, Aphrodisias in
Late Antiquity no. 132, and plate xxxii, whence PHI 802, 803,
790, 768.
- Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
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