8.276. Dedicatory poem, church of SS. Barbara and Anastasia

Description:
Three white marble fragments which join to form two blocks of a composite lintel (H. 0.15-0.18, D. 0.31-0.35) with moulding along the front and the surviving right edge; probably only a small fragment is lost to the left—the total surviving W. c. 1.50.
Text:
Inscribed in one line along the uppermost fascia of the moulding, which is chipped away above.
Letters:
0.025.
Date:
Ninth to tenth centuries A.D. (lettering, metre)
Findspot:
One block found during the excavation of the Theatre in 1969, another a stray find in 1970, a third excavated in the Sebasteion portico in 1979.
Original Location:
?An unidentified church.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition (69.354, 70.224, 79.190).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 107 and plate xxix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 612.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[?ἔνθ' ἴ]δε ναὸν τ̣ῶν ἁγ̣ίων μαρτ̣ύρων
2Βαρ̣βαρ̣ας τε φῆμι κ[αὶ Ἀ]ναστασίας cross v.
1[·····]ΔΕΝΑΟΝ·ΩΝΑ·ΙΩΝΜΑΡ·ΥΡΩΝΒΑ·ΒΑ·ΑΣΤΕΦΗΜΙΚ[···]ΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΑΣ cross  
<lg>
<lb n="1" />
<l n="1" >
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἔνθ'
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἴ
</supplied>
δε
ναὸν
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ῶν
ἁ
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
ίων
μαρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ύρων
</l>
<l n="2" >
Βα
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
βα
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
ας
τε
φῆμι
κ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀ
</supplied>
ναστασίας
<g type="cross" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</l>
</lg>

Translation:

Here ?see the church of the holy martyrs, Barbara, I mean, and Anastasia.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VII.23.

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Left end fragment (1980)
 Left end fragment (1980)
Centre fragment (1977)
 Centre fragment (1977)
Right end fragment (1977)
 Right end fragment (1977)
Fragments 1 and 2 together (1980)
 Fragments 1 and 2 together (1980)

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