7.2. Dedicatory poem ?

Description:
Four fragments, two of which join, from a series of long, slightly concave white marble ?cornice blocks. a., two joining fragments, with left edge surviving, W. 0.76, D. 0.355; b., apparently a complete block, W. 0.535, D. 0.39; c., complete at right, perhaps at left, W. 0.485, D. 0.36.
Text:
Inscribed in one line along the slightly concave edge (H. 0.16).
Letters:
0.08; tall and clear-cut, with triangular trenches.
Date:
Sixth century A.D., or later
Findspot:
a. Martyrion: section 5, south wall. b. 'narthex, côté nord' ?of the Temple (Gaudin); found in the Temple/Church by the NYU expedition (1961: notebook 4, 15); c: 'Geira, Haus des Ishiklar, hoch oben eingemauert' (Kubitschek), 'in a house wall' (MAMA), stray find (NYU).
Original Location:
Martyrion or Temple/Church?
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
c copied by Kubitschek (K.V.6) and by Reichel (R.I.30) and by the MAMA expedition; b recorded by Gaudin (69); a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition in 1961, 1962 and 1969 (a: 62.437, c: 69.360)
Bibliography:
b. Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, no. 207, whence IGC 263 and, from Reichel, 264bis; c. published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 603; all published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 100 and plate xxvi, whence discussion by Feissel (1991), 372, n.25, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 709, Steinepigramme 02/09/97.
Text constituted from:
Publications; Kubitschek and Reichel notebooks; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
a
1 | cross ἐκ Μαρίης θεοπαῖδος ἀπηνέος [·· ? ··]
b
1[·· ? ··] θεοδέγμονα κῆπον v. |
c
1[·· ? ··]ΝΙ θῆκα τὸ δῶμα cross |
a
1 cross ΕΚΜΑΡΙΗΣΘΕΟΠΑΙΔΟΣΑΠΗΝΕΟΣ[ - - - ]
b
1[ - - - ]ΘΕΟΔΕΓΜΟΝΑΚΗΠΟΝ 
c
1[ - - - ]ΝΙΘΗΚΑΤΟΔΩΜΑ cross
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<ab>
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<g type="cross" />
ἐκ
Μαρίης
θεοπαῖδος
ἀπηνέος
<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" />
θεοδέγμονα
κῆπον
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</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="c" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
νι
</orig>
θῆκα
τὸ
δῶμα
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</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

b. Reinach read ΘΕΟΔΕΙΜΟΝΑ which was correctly emended by Grégoire.

c. ἀνεθήκατο Grégoire; [ἀ]νίθηκα τὸ ALA ed. 1; [·· ? ··]νι θῆκα τὸ Feissel (1991); θήκατο Feissel (2002).

Translation:

a. From Mary, whose child was God, of harsh [·· ? ··]

b. [·· ? ··] the God-receiving garden

c. [·· ? ··] I set the house.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.16.

Photographs:

A: Left end (1977)
 A: Left end (1977)
A: Right end (1977)
 A: Right end (1977)
A: Assembled (1972)
 A: Assembled (1972)
B: Face (1969)
 B: Face (1969)
C: Face (1977)
 C: Face (1977)

Representations:

C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6
 C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6
C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30
 C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30

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