219. Text at an entrance

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Description

Monument: Two blue marble columns (diam. 0.53 × i: H. 0.85, ii: H. 3.62).
Text: i: Inscribed at 0.37 above base. ii: repaired in antiquity at the right. Inscribed at 0.96 above the lower end.
Letters: Irregular, 0.03-0.04, lunate; very worn.
Date: Sixth century or later (monogram).

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i
	(αβκο)
ii
	ἐστὶν ἡ εἴσοδος τοῦ
	κ[.]ι[.]λοθ[.]ατα[.]ου
	λονος [το]ύτου [... c. 3 ...]

Translation

ii. The entrance of the [...] is [...]

Apparatus

ii: ll. 2-3. Perhaps [κ]ατὰ [τ]οῦ [πυ]λο͂νος [το]ύτου; but I cannot make out any traces of letters before ΛΟΝΟΣ in l. 3.

Photographs

Column i (1976) Column ii (1978)

Representations

Drawing of Monogram

Commentary

Locations

Found: Fields: field c. 200 north-west of the Temple-Church, half-buried.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 219, whence PHI 879, 880.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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