1.20. Prayer of Theodoros
- Description:
- A column base; the surface is slightly chipped, and broken away at the right.
- Text:
- On the upper, flat fascia of the moulding.
- Letters:
- 0.02-0.03; simple; scroll for abbreviation. A cross has been superimposed on the second line, cut over Β; a similar cross was cut, presumably at the same time, on the socle of the column above.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (location, lettering, terminology).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: south aisle, the fourth column from the east, on the south face of the base, cut on the upper moulding: .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek (K.V.16; Abklatsch xvii); by Gaudin (31); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin by Reinach no. 210, whence Grégoire, IGC 258; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 114 and plate xxx, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 593.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; Kubitschek; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross εὐχὴ Θεοδώρου Ο̣[··]ΕΤΗΣ
- 2τῆς εὐλαβ(εστάτης) διακονίσης cross
- 1 cross ΕΥΧΗΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΥ·[··]ΕΤΗΣ
- 2ΤΗΣΕΥΛΑΒΔΙΑΚΟΝΙΣΗΣ cross
Apparatus
l. 1, After Θεοδώρου, Reinach read Κ̣[·· ? ··]ΕΤΗΣ, whence Grégoire restored κ[(αὶ) Ἀρ]ετῆς; but the first letter is definitely a round one (Ο or Σ, Ε).
2. Kubitschek read another cross at the beginning of line 2, probably a double reading of the Τ. Reinach, misled by the superimposed cross, read τῆς θυ[γ]ατρός.
Translation:
Prayer of Theodoros, ?son of [·· ? ··]ete, the most pious deaconess.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VIII.2, for this type of text, and at ala2004 VIII.5.
Photographs:
- View (1976)
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- Face
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- 114 and 128, from south (2004)
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- 114 and 128, from south (2004)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p. 15
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