Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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139. Invocations

Description

Monument: Interior blocks of a small gateway. i: 0.39 x 0.98, D. not measurable; ii: 0.54 × 0.34 × 1.03.
Text: Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.
Letters: i: c. 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.
Date: Fifth-sixth century or later (contents).

Text

i
	φ cross ῶς
	ζω cross ή
ii
	Χρ cross ιστὲ
	νί cross κα

Translation

i. Light! Life!

ii. Christ, be victorious!

Photographs

View of gateway (1981)	i. Text (1972)	ii. Text (1975)

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.16.

Locations

Found: City walls: at the south east corner, in the small gateway to the north of the main archway of the East Gate. See plan 7.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates xxxiii, xxxiv.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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