142. Prayer

Monument: Blue marble column.
Text: The inscription is cut 0.26 above the lower end of the column, and the inscribed area measures 0.43 by 0.23. Above the text is a depiction of a Christian sanctuary: two spiral columns support an arch, with a pointed roof surmounted by a cross. From the arch hangs a lamp, flanked by two candles and two birds. The candles stand on a rail between the columns, from which hang curtains, looped back to reveal a large cross, flanked by an angel and a saint. Two birds are perched on the capitals of the columns. The design and the letters have been cut with a fine-pointed implement.
Letters: 0.008-0.017.
Date: Fourth century or later (content).

Lord, the God who is above the heavens, help and provide for your servant ?Cerecoccius, also called ?Curius.

l.7. Perhaps Κομεων.

View of portico (1985) Face (1977) Right side view Theatre Baths,east portico: western colonnade (2004)

See discussion at VIII.19.

Found: Theatre Baths: east portico, west side. Cut on the first column from the north: see plan 6.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 142 and plate xxxiv; not in PHI.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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