Description:
A white marble column base fragment, apparently cut down for re-use, ?perhaps to crown an aperture (H. c. 0.60 × W. 0.21 × D. 0.18).
Text:
Inscribed across what was the top, is now apparently the face.
Letters:
Very rough and variable, 0.02 (Ο) - 0.05 (Ι). Cursive alpha; diairesis on iota.
Date:
Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering).
Findspot:
City, Village: in excavations immediately north of Museum.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (16.IX.90).
Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché (2004), 247.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross Γεώργιος Α
1 cross ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣΑ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
Γεώργιος
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

Georgios.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.22.

Photographs:

Face (1990)
  Face (1990)

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