Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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106. Heliodorus, builder or donor

Description

• Monument: Fragment from a blue-grey marble lintel or cornice block (0.25 x 0.14 x 0.38) with a moulded profile.
• Text: Inscribed in one line on one fascia (H. 0.05) of front moulding.
• Letters: 0.025; clear and irregular; scroll for abbreviation; ΩΡ in ligature.
• Date: Fifth/sixth/seventh century (lettering, terminology)

Text

Translation

Heliodorus, the least of men, [...]

Photographs

Face (1973)

Commentary

Locations

• Found: Found among the ruins of a small building some way outside the southwestern stretch of the city walls.
• Original: ?An unidentified church
• Last Recorded: Findspot

History

• Recording: Found by the NYU expedition in 1973.
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 106 and plate xxviii, whence PHI 611.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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