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139. Invocations
Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Interior blocks of a small gateway. i: 0.39 x 0.98, D. not
measurable; ii: 0.54
× 0.34 ×
1.03.
- Text:
Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on
the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both
inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.
- Letters:
i: c. 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.
- Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (contents).
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φ cross ῶς
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ζω cross ή
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Χρ cross ιστὲ
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νί cross κα
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Translation
i. Light! Life!
ii. Christ, be victorious!
Photographs
| View of gateway (1981)
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i. Text (1972)
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ii. Text (1975)
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Commentary
See discussion at VIII.16.
Locations
- Found:
City walls: at the south east corner, in the small gateway
to the north of the main archway of the East Gate. See plan 7.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by
the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence
Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the
MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates
xxxiii, xxxiv.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
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