11.516. Text at an entrance
- Description:
- Two blue marble columns (diam. 0.53 × i: H. H. 0.85, ii: H. H. 3.62).
- Text:
- i: Inscribed at 0.37 above base. ii: repaired in antiquity at the right. Inscribed at 0.96 above the lower end.
- Letters:
- Irregular, 0.03-0.04, lunate; very worn.
- Date:
- Sixth-tenth century A.D. (monogram)
- Findspot:
- City, North-west: field c. 200 m north-west of the Temple-Church, half-buried.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 219, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 879, 880.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1(ΑΒΚΟ)
- 1 ἐστὶν ἡ εἴσοδος τοῦ
- 2 Κ[·]Ι[·]Λ̣ΟΘ[·]ΑΤΑ[·]ΟΥ
- 3Λ̣ΟΝΟΣ [το]ύτου [···]
- 1 monogram
- 1ΕΣΤΙΝΗΕΙΣΟΔΟΣΤΟΥ
- 2Κ[·]Ι[·]·ΟΘ[·]ΑΤΑ[·]ΟΥ
- 3·ΟΝΟΣ[··]ΥΤΟΥ[···]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<expan>
</orig>
<abbr>
<orig
>
</abbr>
<g
type="monogram"
/>
</orig>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αβκο
</supplied>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
ἐστὶν
ἡ
εἴσοδος
τοῦ
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
κ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
ι
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
οθ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
ατα
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
ου
</orig>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
ονος
</orig>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
το
</supplied>
ύτου
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
ii: ll. 2-3. Perhaps [κ]ατὰ [τ]οῦ [πυ]λο͂νος [το]ύτου; but I cannot make out any traces of letters before ΛΟΝΟΣ in l. 3.
Translation:
ii. The entrance of the ·· ? ·· is [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Photographs:
- Column i (1976)
-
- Column ii (1978)
-
Representations:
- Drawing of Monogram
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