Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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112. Warning against throwing earth
Description
- Monument:
A white marble block, broken to the right (1.15 × 0.95 ×
0.30), with holes for clamps below the upper edge. If, as seems
likely, the large cross was central to the block, the original width
of the block was c. 2 m, and it extended to the corner of the
bastion.
- Text:
Disposed on either side of a large inscribed cross (H.
0.85, original W. c. 0.50).
- Letters:
0.015-0.035;
clear, cursive; in l.3. cross as an abbreviation mark over θ(εο)ῦ.
- Date:
Fifth century or later (lettering, content).
Text
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cross ὁ ῥίπτων χώματα ἐν τῷ cross τιχίῳ [ἔχει τὸ
ἀνά]-
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θεμα ἀπὸ τῶν τιη´ πατέ cross ρων ὡ[ς ἐκθρὸς]
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τοῦ cross θ(εο)ῦ cross
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Translation
He who throws earth (?) on the wall has anathema from the 318 fathers as an enemy of God.
Photographs
Commentary
See discussion at VII.32, and, for prohibitions, VII.30.
Locations
- Found:
City walls: 'dans un mur du jardin' (Paris and
Holleaux); 'Maison Hussein Chaous' (Reinach); re-used in eastern
stretch, on the southern face of a bastion. See
plan 7.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by Gaudin (10); by
the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published Paris and Holleaux, , no. 13, whence Ramsay, CBP 555, no. 429; by Reinach, no. 18, from Gaudin, whence IGC 248, DACL 1, col. 193, vol. 14, col. 796, no. 23; by Cormack MAMA 8, no. 428 and plate, from the MAMA records, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 112 and plate xxix, whence PHI 762.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
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