Description of Monument
Two blue marble columns (diam. 0.53 × i: H. 0.85, ii: H.
3.62).
Description of Text
i: Inscribed at 0.37 above base. ii: repaired in antiquity
at the right. Inscribed at 0.96 above the lower end.
Description of Letters
Irregular, 0.03-0.04, lunate; very worn.
Date
Sixth-tenth century A.D. (monogram)
Edition
αβκο
ἐστὶν ἡ εἴσοδος τοῦ
κιλοθαταου
λονος τούτου
Apparatus
ii: ll. 2-3. Perhaps κατὰ τοῦ πυλο͂νος τούτου; but I cannot make out
any traces of letters before ΛΟΝΟΣ in
l. 3.
Translation
ii. The entrance of the is
Locations
Found: City, North-west: field c. 200 m north-west of the Temple-Church,
half-buried.. Original location: Unknown.. Last recorded location: Findspot..
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
no. 219, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 879, 880.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Photographs
Representations