Description:
A marble block, perhaps part of a door post which has been cut down for re-use (H. c. 0.43 × W. 1.29 × D. 0.41).
Text:
Graffiti incised on the front face.
Letters:
Irregular and not closely dateable, av. 0.01; squared Ω.
Date:
Possibly no earlier than last quarter of fourth century (if indiction on l. 3), but very uncertain.
Findspot:
Found with other re-used material in the theatre, apparently part of the rubble with which the cavea was filled in the seventh century
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lying east of theatre (1980)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (date?).
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 2.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).
1·Υ̣ v. Ω̣Ρ̣Α̣ τῷ οἴκῳ
2τούτῳ
3[·]ΝΔ̣Ι
3a[·· ? ··
1·· ···ΤΩΟΙΚΩ
2ΤΟΥΤΩ
3[·]Ν·Ι
3a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="illegible" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
υ
</unclear>
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ωρα
</unclear>
</orig>
τῷ
οἴκῳ
<lb n="2" />
τούτῳ
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ν
<unclear reason="damage" >
Δ
</unclear>
Ι
</orig>
<lb n="3a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, just possibly a Φ at the start of this line.

l. 3, possibly from [ἰ]νδι[κτιών, but a date is not particularly relevant here, so that a verb (?ἐ]νδι[ατᾶται]) might be considered more probable.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] this house [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

[?protect] ... / [blessing on] ... / [joy on] ...

...

Photographs:

Text (1976)
 Text (1976)
Monument (1980)
 Monument (1980)

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