128. ?Prayer of the builders

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Description

• Monument: White marble column base, inscribed on upper moulding of face.
• Text: i: to left; ii: to right. Below ii an indecipherable monogram.
• Letters: i: c. 0.035-0.04. ii: more lightly cut; letters c. 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.
• Date: Very uncertain.

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Translation

i. [...] the builders.

ii. ?Under the supervision of [...]

Photographs

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

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.11.

Locations

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

History

• Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 128, and plate xxxii, whence PHI 594, 595.
• Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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