Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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118. Prayers on West Door of Temple-Church (north)

Description

• Monument: A white marble doorpost.
• Text: A cross has been carefully sculpted (H. 0.31), and the surface cut away around it; it is very similar to that on the facing door-post (117), but not so well centred. Text ii is arranged around the oval recessed area surrounding it; text i is some way above, text iii some way below. There are several other, less substantial, crosses inscribed on this door-post.
• Letters: i: a cross monogram, H. 0.17. ii: letters: 0.025-0.04. iii: letters: 0.015-0.025; lightly cut and partially erased.
• Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).

Text

Translation

i. Peter.

ii. Ascension of the Lord.

iii. Lord help your servant Ro[...]

Apparatus

i was printed back to front by Reinach. ii was correctly transcribed by Fellows and Texier, but Reinach omitted Κ(υρίο)υ, whence Grégoire restored Ανάληψης Πέτρο(υ)

iii. Reinach gave only 1. I; he and Grégoire read at the end Τροφίμ̣(ῳ).

Photographs

Overview (1976)	i. Text (1972)	ii. Text (1972)	iii. Text (1972)	View of temple west door, from west (1972)
View from west (2004)

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.8.

Locations

• Found: Temple-Church: Atrium, west door, on the south, face of the northern door-post: see plan 5.
• Original: Findspot.
• Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

• Recording: ii copied by Texier, p1. 156; i and ii copied by Fellows; all recorded by Gaudin (i and ii, 26; iii, 27), and by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: i and ii published by Fellows, i on p. 31, ii on p. 361, no. 7; ii by Texier, As. Min. iii p. 156; by Reinach, from Gaudin, i and ii as no. 204, iii as no. 205, whence Grégoire, IGC 260, 257bis; all by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 118.i, ii, iii, whence PHI 642, 641, 643.
• Text constituted from: Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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