114. Prayer of Theodore

Description

Monument: A column base; the surface is slightly chipped, and broken away at the right.
Text: On the upper, flat fascia of the moulding.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; simple; scroll for abbreviation. A cross has been superimposed on the second line, cut over Β; a similar cross was cut, presumably at the same time, on the socle of the column above.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (location, lettering, terminology).

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	cross εὐχὴ Θεοδώρου ο[..]ετησ
	τῆς εὐλαβ(εστάτης) διακονίσης cross

Translation

Prayer of Theodore, ?son of [...]ete, the most pious deaconess.

Apparatus

l.1: After Θεοδώρου, Reinach read Κ[...]ΕΤΗΣ, whence Grégoire restored κ[(αὶ) Ἀρ]ετῆς; but the first letter is definitely a round one (Ο or Σ, Ε).

2. Kubitschek read another cross at the beginning of line 2, probably a double reading of the Τ. Reinach, misled by the superimposed cross, read τῆς θυ[γ]ατρός.

Photographs

View (1976) Face 114 and 128, from south (2004) 114 and 128, from south (2004)

Representations

Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p. 15

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.2, for this type of text, and at VIII.5.

Locations

Found: Temple-Church: south aisle, the fourth column from the east, on the south face of the base, cut on the upper moulding: see plan 5.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Recorded by Kubitschek (K.V.16; Abklatsch xvii); by Gaudin (31); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published from Gaudin by Reinach no. 210, whence Grégoire, IGC 258; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 114 and plate xxx, whence PHI 593.
Text constituted from: Publications; Kubitschek; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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