Description:
A blue-grey marble fragment broken at back and below (H. 0.08 × W. 0.30 × D. 0.11), from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth and one side has a moulded profile; broken at back and below. Resembles 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.16.
Text:
Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
Letters:
0.02; square.
Date:
Fifth/sixth century (location, lettering).
Findspot:
South Agora, north portico: stray surface find.
Original Location:
Temple/Church: ?Crowning a chancel barrier, .
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.95).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 95 and plate xxiv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 651.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Ο̣Ν Ἀναστασίου [·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ]·ΝΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
ν
</orig>
Ἀναστασίου
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] of Anastasios [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.10.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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