Description:
A fragment, broken on both sides and below (H. 0.155 × W. 0.36 × D. 0.08), from the upper edge of a white marble balustrade panel which had open arcading below.
Text:
Inscribed in one line along the upper rim.
Letters:
0.03.
Date:
Fifth/sixth century or later (lettering).
Findspot:
Stray find.
Original Location:
?An unidentified church.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1979 (79.19).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 105, and plate xxviii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 711.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··]ΝΗ θεῷ καὶ ἀγγέλοις Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]ΝΗΘΕΩΚΑΙΑΓΓΕΛΟΙΣ···[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
νη
</orig>
θεῷ
καὶ
ἀγγέλοις
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιιι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] to God and angels [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.19.

Photographs:

Face (1980)
 Face (1980)

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