1.13. Prayer of donors, including Theodoretos and Kyriakos

Description:
Seven blue-grey marble fragments, H. H. 0.16, D. 0.20 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 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16. a: three joining pieces, total W. W. 0.29; b: three joining pieces, total W. W. 0.30; c: w. W. 0.11.
Text:
Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters:
0.025; elongated.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries (location, lettering).
Findspot:
Temple/Church: six fragments in sector xv, one stray find.
Original Location:
Temple/Church: ?Crowning the chancel barrier.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1977)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962 (62.105, 62.201, and unnumbered).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 93 and plate xxiv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 649.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
a
1[·· ? ·· π]ᾶσιν τ̣οῖς φιλοῦσιν αὐτὸ̣[ν ·· ? ··]
b
1[·· ? ·· ?βοήθη]σ̣ον Θεοδ̣ωρήτῳ κ(αὶ) Κυριακῷ [·· ? ··]
c
1[·· ? ··] τοις ΔΙΑΦ̣[·· ? ··]
a
1[ - - - ·]ΑΣΙΝ·ΟΙΣΦΙΛΟΥΣΙΝΑΥΤ·[· - - - ]
b
1[ - - - ·····]·ΟΝΘΕΟ·ΩΡΗΤΩΚΚΥΡΙΑΚΩ[ - - - ]
c
1[ - - - ]ΤΟΙΣΔΙΑ·[ - - - ]
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<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
π
</supplied>
ᾶσιν
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
οῖς
φιλοῦσιν
αὐτ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ὸ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
βοήθη
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
ον
Θεο
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
ωρήτῳ
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αὶ
</supplied>
</expan>
Κυριακῷ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
τοις
<orig n="unresolved" >
δια
<unclear reason="damage" >
φ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. [·· ? ·· to] all that love him [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ·· ?help] Theodoretos and Kyriakos [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.10.

Photographs:

a: Face (1977)
 a: Face (1977)
b: Face (1977)
 b: Face (1977)
c: Face (1977)
 c: Face (1977)

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