Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

100. Dedicatory poem

Monument: Four fragments, two of which join, from a series of long, slightly concave white marble blocks. a: two joining fragments, with left edge surviving, W. 0.76, D. 0.355; b: apparently a complete block, W. 0.535, D. 0.39; c: complete at right, perhaps at left, W. 0.485, D. 0.36.
Text: Inscribed in one line along the slightly concave edge (H. 0.16).
Letters: 0.08; tall and clear-cut, with triangular trenches.
Date: Sixth century, or later

a
	\| cross ἐκ Μαρίης θεοπαῖδος ἀπηνέος [...]
b
	[...] θεοδέγμονα κῆπον vac. \|
c
	[...]νι θῆκα τὸ δῶμα cross \|

a. From Mary, whose child was God, of harsh [...]

b. [...] the God-receiving garden

c. [...] I set the house.

b: Reinach read ΘΕΟΔΕΙΜΟΝΑ which was correctly emended by Grégoire.

c: ἀνεθήκατο Grégoire; [ἀ]νίθηκα τὸ ALA ed. 1; [...]νι θῆκα τὸ Feissel (1991); θήκατο Feissel (2002).

A: Left end (1977)	A: Right end (1977)	A: Assembled (1972)	B: Face (1969)	C: Face (1977)

C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6 C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30

See discussion at VII.16; for the Triconch Church see VII.15.

Found: a: Triconch Church: section 5, south wall. b: 'narthex, côté nord' ?of the Temple (Gaudin); found in the Temple-Church by the NYU expedition (1961: notebook 4, 15); c: 'Geira, Haus des Ishiklar, hoch oben eingemauert' (Kubitschek), 'in a house wall' (MAMA), stray find (NYU).
Original: ?Triconch Church or Temple?
Last Recorded: Museum.

Recording: c copied by Kubitschek (K.V.6) and by Reichel (R.I.30) and by the MAMA expedition; b recorded by Gaudin (69); a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition in 1961, 1962 and 1969 (a: 62. 437, c: 69. 360)
Bibliography: b: Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, no. 207, whence IGC 263 and, from Reichel, 264bis; c published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 603; all published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 100 and plate xxvi, whence discussion by Feissel (1991), 372, n.25, PHI 709, Steinepigramme 02/09/97.
Text constituted from: Publications; Kubitschek and Reichel notebooks; transcription (Roueché).

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C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6	C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30