Description:
Masonry block in the wall of the Temple-Church.
Text:
Texts i and ii are disposed on either side of a design described previously as a table, but in fact a measure. There are three of these marked out on the wall: 1. To the left of 113.ii, worn at the left; at least 0.60. 2. To the right of 113.i; well cut, 0.29, surmounted by a cross. 3. 5th block to east with a central divide - 0.62, divided into two spans of roughly 0.305. Text i, to the left, impinges slightly on this; text ii is to the right.
Letters:
i: 0.04-0.09, deep and clear; ii 0.045, roughly cut.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries or later (lettering, content)
Findspot:
Temple/Church: On a block in the outer face of the south wall, towards the east end: .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 113 i and ii, and plate xxx, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 635, 654.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
i
1 cross ὑπὲρ εὐχῆς
2 v. Ἀστερίου
3 v. πανδούρου cross
ii
1 Λέον
2βοήθη Τ v.
i
1 cross ΥΠΕΡΕΥΧΗΣ
2 ΑΣΤΕΡΙΟΥ
3 ΠΑΝΔΟΥΡΟΥ cross
ii
1ΛΕΟΝ
2ΒΟΗΘΗΤ 
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πανδούρου
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Apparatus

There has been an attempt to erase the crosses.

Translation:

i. For the prayer of Asterios, lute-player.

ii. Leon. Help[·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.2, for this type of text, and at ala2004 VIII.3.

Photographs:

i: Face
 i: Face
Central design (1972)
 Central design (1972)
ii: Face
 ii: Face
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(2004)
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