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99. Fragments from a poem decorating a feature in the Temple-Church
Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Twenty-two white marble fragments, some joining, from the outer rim of a large circular feature (outer diam. 3 m, inner 2.55). The blocks were designed to be seen from below, and have elaborately ornamented trapezoidal panels on the underside (each
c. 0.98 long); the panels each have a different pattern, which enables the grouping together of several fragments which do not join.
The blocks are slightly convex, and the outer edge slopes outwards from bottom to top (H. 0.16); on it are a series of bosses with an ornamental cross (c. 0.40 apart).
- Text:
The text runs in one line between the bosses, with a continuous line incised above and below it.
- Letters:
av. 0.09; deep triangular trenches; elongated and ornate. Colon for stop in a after φύσιν, and in b: semi-colon in a after ΡΙΣ; horizontal line over abbreviation in k.
- Date:
Tenth century
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[...]ιν boss [...]ι boss κωσ φύσιν stop boss γε [... boss ...] boss ρισ stop ἄγγέλ boss ων πρωτ[ο boss ]στάτη[ς ...]
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[...]λιιων boss σῶμα νεκρ boss ῶν τῷ βίῷ stop boss [...]
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[...] boss ου θυηπό boss λο[υ ...]
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[...] ωσφψ boss [...]
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[...] Χριστῷ [...]
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((perhaps from the end of a))
[...] boss αυλ[...]
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[...]αλλ[...]
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[...]τισι[...]
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[...]κο boss [...]
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[...] boss τι[...]
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[...] Θ(ε)έ [...]
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Translation
a. [...] nature [...] leader of angels [...]
b. body of the dead, by life [...]
c. [...] priest [...]
e. [...] Christ [...]
k. [...] (o) God [...]
Apparatus
f. Perhaps αὐλ[η...]
Photographs
| A: Fragment 1 (1969) |
A: Fragment 1, underside (1969) |
A: Fragment 2 (1969) |
A: Fragment 2, underside (1969) |
A: Fragment 3 (1969) |
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| A: Fragment 3, underside (1969) |
A: Fragment 4 (1969) |
A: Fragment 5 (1969) |
A: Fragment 6 (1969) |
B: Fragment 1 (1969) |
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| B: Fragment 1, underside (1969) |
B: Fragment 3 (1969) |
B: Fragment 3, underside (1969) |
B: Fragment 4 (1969) |
B: Fragment 4, underside (1969) |
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| B: Assembled, left end (1972) |
B: Assembled, right end (1972) |
C: Fragment 1 (1969) |
C: Fragment 1, underside (1969) |
C: Fragment 2 (1969) |
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| C: Fragment 3 (1969) |
C: Fragment 3, underside (1969) |
C: Assembled (1972) |
D: Face (1969) |
E: Face (1969) |
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| F: Face (1969) |
G: Face (1969) |
G: Underside (1969) |
I: Face (1966) |
J: Face (1978) |
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Commentary
See discussion at VII.8
Locations
- Found:
Temple-Church: various locations, over several years.
- Original:
Temple-church.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Part of a, and k recorded by Gaudin (30); a-j excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962, 1963, 1964, or recorded as stray finds: 62.104, 62.110, 62.174-8, 62.196-9, 63.637, 64.129, and unnumbered.
- Bibliography:
a (part) and k published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 211, whence IGC 259; all published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 99. and plates xxv, xxvi (a and c), whence Steinepigramme 02/09/98; not in PHI.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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