Description:
Four blue-grey marble fragments (H. 0.15 × W. 0.975 (total) × D. 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 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16.
Text:
Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters:
0.035-0.04; elongated, lunate.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (location, script).
Findspot:
Temple/Church: Three fragments found in sectors xv and xiii, str. 1; one stray find.
Original Location:
Temple/Church: ?Crowning the chancel barrier.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962 and 1968 (62.100, 62.111, 68.292).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 92 and plate xxiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 648.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··]ι̣ὴλ´ βοήθησον τοῖς δούλοις σου Θεοδωρήτῳ κ(αὶ) Κυριακῷ cross leaf v.
1[ - - - ]·ΗΛΒΟΗΘΗΣΟΝΤΟΙΣΔΟΥΛΟΙΣΣΟΥΘΕΟΔΩΡΗΤΩΚΚΥΡΙΑΚΩ cross leaf  
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<lb n="1" />
<num >
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ὴλ
</num>
βοήθησον
τοῖς
δούλοις
σου
Θεοδωρήτῳ
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αὶ
</supplied>
</expan>
Κυριακῷ
<g type="cross" />
<g type="leaf" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··]iel help your servants Theodoretos and Kyriakos

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.10.

Photographs:

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

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