8.607. Warning against theft
- Description:
- A smooth white marble column drum (H. 1,42, diam. 0.60).
- Text:
- Painted in red paint on a white background, below the upper edge.
- Letters:
- 0.045; simple; square sigma. There are some traces of further painted decoration.
- Date:
- Fifth/sixth century (lettering, findspot).
- Findspot:
- Theatre: re-used in the Byzantine fortification wall constructed across the eastern end of the Theatre apparently in the seventh century.
- Original Location:
- Unknown; perhaps Theatre Baths.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.238).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 111 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 763.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross σχῇ πρὸς τὸ βῆμα τοῦ
- 2 Χριστοῦ καὶ τὴν ἐωνίαν
- 3 κρίσιν ὁ κλέπτον ἐκ τοῦ
- 4 τόπου τούτου τί ποτε.
- 1 cross ΣΧΗΠΡΟΣΤΟΒΗΜΑΤΟΥ
- 2ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΤΗΝΕΩΝΙΑΝ
- 3ΚΡΙΣΙΝΟΚΛΕΠΤΟΝΕΚΤΟΥ
- 4ΤΟΠΟΥΤΟΥΤΟΥΤΙΠΟΤΕ
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n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
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σχῇ
πρὸς
τὸ
βῆμα
τοῦ
<lb
n="2"
/>
Χριστοῦ
καὶ
τὴν
ἐωνίαν
<lb
n="3"
/>
κρίσιν
ὁ
κλέπτον
ἐκ
τοῦ
<lb
n="4"
/>
τόπου
τούτου
τί
ποτε
.
</ab>
Translation:
May he face the tribunal of Christ and the eternal judgement, he who steals anything at all from this place.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VII.30.
Photographs:
- Monument (1972)
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- Left side (1976)
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- Right side (1976)
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