Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

117. Prayers on West Door of Temple-Church (south)

Description

Monument: A white marble door post.
Text: The texts are grouped - i above, ii and iii to the right, iv to the left - around a cross carefully sculpted (H. 0.31) in the centre of the door-post, with the surface of the stone cut away around it; iii was certainly inscribed before the cross was cut.
Letters: i: av. 0.03-0.04; the first line is a monogram, H. 0.21. ii: 0.025-0.035, partially erased; last two letters of 1. 1 above line; a cross superimposed on I. I. iii: c. 0.05; very rough; lost at left when large cross was sculpted. iv: c. 0.04, rough; above a cross, H. 0.14, in a circle.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).

Text

i
	Θεοφ(ί)λ(ῳ)
	Κ(ύρι)ε βωΐθι το͂ σο͂ δ(ού)λο
	μα(κε)λαρή(ῳ) cross
ii
	Κονστα̣[ντ]ῖνος δηάκων
iii
	[...]πα̣ν
	[...]^v. ησ̣υ̣μ̣οι̣
iv
	μ
	[.]οσ
	cross
	τ

Translation

i. Lord, help your servant Theophilus, butcher.

ii. Constantine, deacon.

Apparatus

i, l.1 Θεόφιλ(ος) Reinach; earlier editors could interpret nothing.

l. 3. μασ[α]ύρη (?) Kirchhoff; Μασ[σ]άρη(?) Ramsay; Μαζλαρη(?) Reinach; it was Grégoire who recognized the abbreviation mark standing for κε and resolved the text, reading Θεοφίλῳ accordingly in l.1.

ii, l.1: κωνστα[ν]τ[?ῖνος] Reinach; κονστα[ντῖνος] Grégoire.

Photographs

Overview (1976)	i. Text (1976)	ii. Text (1972)	iii. Text (1976)	iv. Text (1972)

View of temple west door, from west (1972)	View from west (2004)

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.8.

Locations

Found: Temple-Church: west door of atrium, cut on the inner, north, face of the southern door: see plan 5.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: i was copied by Texier and byFellows; i and ii recorded by Gaudin (28); i-iv recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: i published by Texier, As. Min. iii 167, pl. 156; by Fellows, no. 72, from both of which CIG 8905, Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 555, no. 428; i and ii from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 206, whence Grégoire, IGC 261.a-b, DACL 14, col. 796, no. 22; i-iv published by RouechéAphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 117.i-iv and plate xxxi, whence PHI 638, 644, 882, 883.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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