240. ?Donor prayer from a church

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History

Description

Monument: White marble fragment (0.28 × 0.08 × 0.07), from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth and vertical. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 107, 239.
Text: Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters: Cursive omega; ave. 0.022.
Date: Fifth/sixth century or later (lettering, content).

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[... ?ὑπὲρ ἀφέσεως] ἁμαρτιῶν ^v. τ[...]

Translation

[...] sins [...]

Apparatus

The final letter may be a cross

Photographs

View of block (1994) Face (1994)

Commentary

See discussion at VII.22.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths: dump of stones west of the baths.
Original: An unidentified church: crowning the chancel barrier.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Recorded by the NYU excavation in 1994 (94.33).
Bibliography: Unpublished.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History