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140. Invocation for Constantius
Description
- Monument:
- Text:
Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
0.06-0.07;
lunate sigma, square epsilon and omega.
- Date:
First half fourth century (content, location).
Text
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εἷς Θεὸς
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ὁ μόνος |
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σῶζε Κωσταντεν.
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Translation
One God, the only one, save Constanten!
Apparatus
I. 3. The first Ν appears to have been cut over sigma. Paris and Holleaux read Κωσταντειν.
Photographs
| Face (1973)
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Walls: north east gate and 140
(2004)
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Walls: north east, with 140
(2004)
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Commentary
See discussion at VIII.17.
Locations
- Found:
City walls: in the highest course of large blocks in the
standing stretch of city wall immediately north of the north-east
gate: see plan 7.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by the MAMA
expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9, 1885, 84, no. 14,
whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 554, no. 424,
Grégoire, IGC 253, Cabrol DACL.
14, col. 795, no. 18, Peterson, Heis Theos 78; by
Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 459, whence Robert, Hellenica 13, 157; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 140 and plate
xxxiii, whence PHI 647.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
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