11.111. ?Invocation
- 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>
</expan>
ὲ
</abbr>
βοήθι
τῷ
κόσμο
<lb
n="2"
/>
σέμερον
<orig
>
κὲ
</orig>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
νια
</orig>
<lb
n="3"
/>
κὲ
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
</ab>
αυρενπισιεγω
</orig>
Translation:
God help the world (?)today, and ·· ? ·· and ·· ? ··.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VIII.18.
- Photographs:
- none.
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