1.22. Prayers on West Door of Temple-Church (north)

Description:: A white marble door post.
Text:: A cross has been carefully sculpted (H. H. 0.31), and the surface cut away around it; it is very similar to that on the facing door-post (1.21), but not so well centred. Text ii is arranged around the oval recessed area surrounding it; text i is some way above, text iii some way below. There are several other, less substantial, crosses inscribed on this door-post.
Letters:: i: a cross monogram, H. 0.17. ii: letters: 0.025-0.04. iii: letters: 0.015-0.025; lightly cut and partially erased.
Date:: Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).
Findspot:: Temple/Church: Atrium, west door, on the south, face of the northern door-post: .
Original Location:: Findspot.
Last recorded location:: Findspot.
History of discovery:: ii copied by Texier, p1. 156; i and ii copied by Fellows; all recorded by Gaudin (i and ii, 26; iii, 27), and by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:: i and ii published by Fellows, i on p. 31, ii on p. 361, no. 71; ii by Texier, As. Min. iii p. 156; by Reinach, from Gaudin, i and ii as no. 204, iii as no. 205, whence Grégoire, IGC 260, 257bis; all by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 118 i, ii, iii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 642, 641, 643.
Text constituted from:: Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).

i: 1Πέτρο(ς).
ii: 1ἀνάληψης τ(οῦ) Κ(υρίο)υ.
iii: 1 cross Κ(ύρι)ε βοΐθι το͂ σο͂ δ(ού)λο ΡΟΔ̣Ν̣Ι Ι̣Ι̣Ρ̣Ν̣Ο̣ΥΡ̣[·]ΝΣ̣

i: 1ΠΕΤΡΟ
ii: 1ΑΝΑΛΗΨΗΣΤΚΥ
iii: 1 cross ΚΕΒΟΙΘΙΤΟ͂ΣΟ͂ΔΛΟΡΟ··Ι·····Υ·[·]Ν·

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Πέτρο

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ἀνάληψης

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οῦ

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υρίο

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ύρι

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βοΐθι

το͂

σο͂

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ού

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λο

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ρο

δν

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ιιρνο

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Apparatus

i was printed back to front by Reinach. ii was correctly transcribed by Fellows and Texier, but Reinach omitted Κ(υρίο)υ, whence Grégoire restored Ανάληψης Πέτρο(υ)

iii. Reinach gave only 1. I; he and Grégoire read at the end Τροφίμ̣(ῳ).