Description:
Interior masonry blocks of a small gateway. i: H. 0.39 × W. 0.98, D. not measurable; ii: H. 0.54 × W. 0.34 × D. 1.03.
Text:
Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.
Letters:
i: c. 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.
Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (content).
Findspot:
Walls, South-east Gate: in the small gateway to the north of the main archway. .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates xxxiii, xxxiv.
Text constituted from:
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1φ cross ῶς
2ζω cross
1Χρ cross ιστὲ
2νί cross κα
1Φ cross ΩΣ
2ΖΩ cross Η
1ΧΡ cross ΙΣΤΕ
2ΝΙ cross ΚΑ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
φ
<g type="cross" />
ῶς
<lb n="2" />
ζω
<g type="cross" />
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Χρ
<g type="cross" />
ιστὲ
<lb n="2" />
νί
<g type="cross" />
κα
</ab>

Translation:

i. Light! Life!

ii. Christ, be victorious!

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.16.

Photographs:

View of gateway (1981)
 View of gateway (1981)
i. Text (1972)
 i. Text (1972)
ii. Text (1975)
 ii. Text (1975)

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