1.28. Michael: ?name or invocation
- Description:
- A white marble column.
- Text:
- Cut on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.035.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (content, location).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: atrium, lying loose.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 124 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 890.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Μηχαή(λ).
- 1ΜΗΧΑΗ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Μηχαή
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
λ
</supplied>
.
</ab>
Translation:
Michael.
Commentary:
Perhaps a personal name, or perhaps an invocation of the archangel; see discussion at ala2004 VIII.9.
Photographs:
- View (1973)
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