1.12. Prayer of Theodoretos and Kyriakos
- Description:
- Four blue-grey marble fragments (H. 0.15 × W. 0.975 (total) × D. 0.20) which join, from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth, tapering inwards. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16.
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
- Letters:
- 0.035-0.04; elongated, lunate.
- Date:
- Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (location, script).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: Three fragments found in sectors xv and xiii, str. 1; one stray find.
- Original Location:
- Temple/Church: ?Crowning the chancel barrier.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962 and 1968 (62.100, 62.111, 68.292).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 92 and plate xxiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 648.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]ι̣ὴλ´ βοήθησον τοῖς δούλοις σου Θεοδωρήτῳ κ(αὶ) Κυριακῷ cross leaf v.
- 1[ - - - ]·ΗΛΒΟΗΘΗΣΟΝΤΟΙΣΔΟΥΛΟΙΣΣΟΥΘΕΟΔΩΡΗΤΩΚΚΥΡΙΑΚΩ cross leaf
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βοήθησον
τοῖς
δούλοις
σου
Θεοδωρήτῳ
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κ
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αὶ
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Κυριακῷ
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Translation:
[·· ? ··]iel help your servants Theodoretos and Kyriakos
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VII.10.
Photographs:
- Left end fragment (1970)
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- Right end fragment (1972)
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- Assembled fragments (1977)
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