140. Invocation for ?Co[n]stantius

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Description

Monument:
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.06-0.07; lunate sigma, square epsilon and omega.
Date: First half fourth century (content, location).

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	εἷς Θεὸς
	ὁ μόνος
	σῶζε Κωσταντεν.

Translation

One God, the only one, save Constanten!

Apparatus

I. 3. The first Ν appears to have been cut over sigma. Paris and Holleaux read Κωσταντειν.

Photographs

Face (1973) Walls: north east gate and 140 (2004) Walls: north east, with 140 (2004)

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.17.

Locations

Found: City walls: in the highest course of large blocks in the standing stretch of city wall immediately north of the north-east gate: see plan 7.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9, 1885, 84, no. 14, whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 554, no. 424, Grégoire, IGC 253, Cabrol DACL. 14, col. 795, no. 18, Peterson, Heis Theos 78; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 459, whence Robert, Hellenica 13, 157; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 140 and plate xxxiii, whence PHI 647.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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