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114. Prayer of Theodore
Description
- Monument:
A column base; the surface is slightly chipped, and broken
away at the right.
- Text:
On the upper, flat fascia of the moulding.
- Letters:
0.02-0.03;
simple; scroll for abbreviation. A cross has been superimposed on the
second line, cut over Β; a similar cross
was cut, presumably at the same time, on the socle of the column
above.
- Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (location, lettering, terminology).
Text
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cross εὐχὴ Θεοδώρου ο̣[..]ετησ
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τῆς εὐλαβ(εστάτης) διακονίσης cross
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Translation
Prayer of Theodore, ?son of [...]ete, the most
pious deaconess.
Apparatus
l.1: After Θεοδώρου,
Reinach read Κ̣[...]ΕΤΗΣ, whence
Grégoire restored κ[(αὶ) Ἀρ]ετῆς; but the first letter is definitely a
round one (Ο or Σ, Ε).
2. Kubitschek read another cross at the beginning of line
2, probably a double reading of the Τ.
Reinach, misled by the superimposed cross, read τῆς θυ[γ]ατρός.
Photographs
| View (1976)
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Face
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114 and 128, from south
(2004)
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114 and 128, from south
(2004)
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Representations
| Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p. 15
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Commentary
See discussion at VIII.2, for
this type of text, and at VIII.5.
Locations
- Found:
Temple-Church: south aisle, the fourth column from the
east, on the south face of the base, cut on the upper moulding: see plan 5.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by Kubitschek (K.V.16; Abklatsch xvii); by Gaudin (31); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin by Reinach no. 210, whence
Grégoire, IGC 258; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 114 and plate xxx,
whence PHI 593.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; Kubitschek; transcriptions (Reynolds,
Roueché).
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