11.64. Prayer of Damocharis, cursor
- Description:
- A thick panel of blue marble (H. 0.52 × W. 0.57 × D. 0.18) with a crack down the left side of the face.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.055-0.07; well-cut; sigma both lunate and square; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
- Fourth-fifth century (lettering, terminology).
- Findspot:
- City, Village: Museum site excavations.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.5).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, J&G, 137-138, no. 10 and plate, whence SEG 1987.852, BE 1988.888; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 116 and plate xxx, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 637.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1εὐχὴ Φλ(αουίου)
- 2Δαμοχά-
- 3ριδος κούρ-
- 4 v. σορος.
- 1ΕΥΧΗΦΛ scroll
- 2ΔΑΜΟΧΑ
- 3ΡΙΔΟΣΚΟΥΡ
- 4 ΣΟΡΟΣ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
εὐχὴ
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
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>
</abbr>
<g
type="scroll"
/>
</orig>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αουίου
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Δαμοχά
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
ριδος
κούρ
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
σορος
.
</ab>
Translation:
Prayer of Flavius Damocharis, cursor.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VIII.2, and, for this type of text, at ala2004 VIII.1.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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