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100. Dedicatory poem

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: Four fragments, two of which join, from a series of long, slightly concave white marble blocks. a: two joining fragments, with left edge surviving, W. 0.76, D. 0.355; b: apparently a complete block, W. 0.535, D. 0.39; c: complete at right, perhaps at left, W. 0.485, D. 0.36.
  • Text: Inscribed in one line along the slightly concave edge (H. 0.16).
  • Letters: 0.08; tall and clear-cut, with triangular trenches.
  • Date: Sixth century, or later

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a
  | cross ἐκ Μαρίης θεοπαῖδος ἀπηνέος [...]
b
  [...] θεοδέγμονα κῆπον vac. |
c
  [...]νι θῆκα τὸ δῶμα cross |

Translation

a. From Mary, whose child was God, of harsh [...]

b. [...] the God-receiving garden

c. [...] I set the house.

Apparatus

b: Reinach read ΘΕΟΔΕΙΜΟΝΑ which was correctly emended by Grégoire.

c: ἀνεθήκατο Grégoire; [ἀ]νίθηκα τὸ ALA ed. 1; [...]νι θῆκα τὸ Feissel (1991); θήκατο Feissel (2002).

Photographs

A: Left end (1977) A: Right end (1977) A: Assembled (1972) B: Face (1969) C: Face (1977)
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Representations

C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6 C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30
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Commentary

See discussion at VII.16; for the Triconch Church see VII.15.

Locations

  • Found: a: Triconch Church: section 5, south wall. b: 'narthex, côté nord' ?of the Temple (Gaudin); found in the Temple-Church by the NYU expedition (1961: notebook 4, 15); c: 'Geira, Haus des Ishiklar, hoch oben eingemauert' (Kubitschek), 'in a house wall' (MAMA), stray find (NYU).
  • Original: ?Triconch Church or Temple?
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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