90. Orthagoras, bishop, undertakes building work

Monument: Fragment from a white marble slab (0.25 × 0.23 × 0.07), of which part of the left side survives.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; irregular, clear.
Date: Sixth century (lettering)

The bishop most dear to God, Orthagoras [?also made] this [...] beneath it [...]? I cleared out [...]

Face (1977)

See discussion at VI.36 and, for Orthagoras, List of Bishops Orthagoras.

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1971 (71.343).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 90 and plate xxiii , whence PHI 631.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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