Description:
'sur un pied-droit' (Texier); it is not clear whether this refers to an upright support in the wall or to a loose column/?base.
Text:
No description.
Letters:
'Tracée en caractères byzantins trés incorrects'. (Texier)
Date:
Fourth century or later (content).
Findspot:
City, North-east: 'non loin de cette porte'—that is, the north-east gate (Texier).
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Copied by Texier; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Texier, As. Min. iii 159, no. 3, whence Kirchhoff, CIG 8919, Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 554, no. 425, Grégoire, IGC 250, Cabrol, DACL. 14, col. 795, no. 19, Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 141, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 639.
Text constituted from:
Publications. This edition Roueché (2007).
1Θ(ε)ὲ βοήθι τῷ κόσμο
2σέμερον κὲ ΝΙΑ
3κὲ ΑΥΡΕΝΠΙΣΙΕΓΩ
1ΘΕΒΟΗΘΙΤΩΚΟΣΜΟ
2ΣΕΜΕΡΟΝΚΕΝΙΑ
3ΚΕΑΥΡΕΝΠΙΣΙΕΓΩ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Θ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ε
</supplied>
<abbr>
</abbr>
</expan>
βοήθι
τῷ
κόσμο
<lb n="2" />
σέμερον
<orig >
κὲ
</orig>
<orig n="unresolved" >
νια
</orig>
<lb n="3" />
κὲ
<orig n="unresolved" >
αυρενπισιεγω
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

God help the world (?)today, and ·· ? ·· and ·· ? ··.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.18.

Photographs:
none.

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