Description:
A smooth white marble column drum (H. 1,42, diam. 0.60).
Text:
Painted in red paint on a white background, below the upper edge.
Letters:
0.045; simple; square sigma. There are some traces of further painted decoration.
Date:
Fifth/sixth century (lettering, findspot).
Findspot:
Theatre: re-used in the Byzantine fortification wall constructed across the eastern end of the Theatre apparently in the seventh century.
Original Location:
Unknown; perhaps Theatre Baths.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.238).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 111 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 763.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross σχῇ πρὸς τὸ βῆμα τοῦ
2 Χριστοῦ καὶ τὴν ἐωνίαν
3 κρίσιν ὁ κλέπτον ἐκ τοῦ
4 τόπου τούτου τί ποτε.
1 cross ΣΧΗΠΡΟΣΤΟΒΗΜΑΤΟΥ
2ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΤΗΝΕΩΝΙΑΝ
3ΚΡΙΣΙΝΟΚΛΕΠΤΟΝΕΚΤΟΥ
4ΤΟΠΟΥΤΟΥΤΟΥΤΙΠΟΤΕ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
σχῇ
πρὸς
τὸ
βῆμα
τοῦ
<lb n="2" />
Χριστοῦ
καὶ
τὴν
ἐωνίαν
<lb n="3" />
κρίσιν
κλέπτον
ἐκ
τοῦ
<lb n="4" />
τόπου
τούτου
τί
ποτε
.
</ab>

Translation:

May he face the tribunal of Christ and the eternal judgement, he who steals anything at all from this place.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.30.

Photographs:

Monument (1972)
 Monument  (1972)
Left side (1976)
 Left side (1976)
Right side (1976)
 Right side (1976)

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