8.905. Panel fragment: ?funerary
- Description:
- Lower part of a white marble panel (H. 0.18 × W. 0.315 × D. 0.06), with sides and lower edges surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Clear and irregular, 0.025-0.035; cross-bar for abbreviation.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, content).
- Findspot:
- Acropolis: Trench 3, Str.2.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition (67.83).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 226, and plate xlvi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 758.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1πόλεω̣[?ς ··]
- 2 ΣΡΟΝ Χρ(ιστοῦ) κο-
- 3νητρ̣ον cross
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1ΠΟΛΕ·[· ··]
- 2ΣΡΟΝΧΡΚΟ
- 3ΝΗΤ·ΟΝ cross
<ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="top"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
πόλε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ω
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ς
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
σρον
</orig>
<expan>
<abbr>
Χρ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ιστοῦ
</supplied>
κο
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
νητ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
ον
<g
type="cross"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
l. 2, The initial Σ appears to have been damaged, but this may be an attempt to correct it to Γ. Κ is apparently corrected from Σ
l. 3, Ρ appears to have been corrected from another letter, perhaps Α.
Translation:
[·· ? ··of the] ?city [·· ? ··] of Christ, ?place of service.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.46.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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