Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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108. Dedicatory poem, church of SS. Barbara and Anastasia
Description
- Monument:
Three white marble fragments which join to form two blocks
of a composite lintel (H. 0.15-0.18, D. 0.31-0.35) with moulding along
the front and the surviving right edge; probably only a small fragment
is lost to the left - the total surviving W. c. 1.50.
- Text:
Inscribed in one line along the uppermost fascia of the
moulding, which is chipped away above.
- Letters:
0.025.
- Date:
Ninth/tenth century (lettering, metre)
Text
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[?ἔνθ' ἴ]δε ναὸν τ̣ῶν ἁγ̣ίων μαρτ̣ύρων
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Βαρ̣βαρ̣ας τε φῆμι κ[αὶ Ἀ]ναστασίας cross vac. |
Translation
Here ?see the church of the holy martyrs, Barbara, I
mean, and Anastasia.
Representations
| Left end fragment (1980)
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Centre fragment (1977)
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Right end fragment (1977)
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Fragments 1 and 2 together (1980)
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Commentary
See discussion at VII.23.
Locations
- Found:
One block found during the excavation of the Theatre in
1969, another a stray find in 1970, a third excavated in the
Sebasteion portico in 1979.
- Original:
?An unidentified church.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (69.354, 70.224, 79.190).
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 107 and plate xxix, whence PHI 612 xxix.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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