1.3. Prayer of the builders
- Description:
- White marble column plinth.
- Text:
- Inscribed on upper moulding of face, i: to left; ii: to right. Below ii an indecipherable monogram.
- Letters:
- i: c. 0.035-0.04. ii: more lightly cut; letters c. 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
- First to tenth centuries A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: south aisle, on the upper moulding of the south face of the base of the third column from the east: .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 128, and plate xxxii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 594, 595.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- i
- 1ΛΑΙ̣Ι̣Β οἱ οἰκοδόμοι.
- ii
- 1ἐ[πι]μελ(ηθέντος)
- i
- 1ΛΑ··ΒΟΙΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΟΙ
- ii
- 1Ε[··]ΜΕΛ
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λα
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ιι
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β
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οἱ
οἰκοδόμοι
.
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ἐ
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πι
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μελ
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ηθέντος
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Translation:
i. [·· ? ··] the builders.
ii. ?Under the supervision of [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VIII.11.
Photographs:
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