111. Warning against theft

Monument: A smooth white marble column drum (H. 1,42, diam. 0.60).
Text: Painted in red paint on a white background, below the upper edge.
Letters: 0.045; simple; square sigma. There are some traces of further painted decoration.
Date: Fifth/sixth century (lettering, findspot).

May he face the tribunal of Christ and the eternal judgement, he who steals anything at all from this place.

Monument (1972) Left side (1976) Right side (1976)

See discussion at VII.30.

Found: Theatre: re-used in the Byzantine fortification wall constructed across the eastern end of the Theatre apparently in the seventh century.
Original: Unknown; perhaps Theatre Baths.
Last Recorded: Museum.

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.238).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 111 whence PHI 763.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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