12.109. Invocation for ?Ko<n>stantios

Description:
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.06-0.07; lunate sigma, square epsilon and omega.
Date:
First half fourth century (content, location).
Findspot:
Walls, North-east: in the highest course of large blocks in the standing stretch of city wall immediately north of the north-east gate.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9, 1885, 84, no. 14, whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 554, no. 424, Grégoire, IGC 253, Cabrol DACL. 14, col. 795, no. 18, Peterson, Heis Theos 78; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 459, whence Robert, Hellenica 13, 157; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 140 and plate xxxiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 647.
Text constituted from:
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1εἷς Θεὸς
2ὁ μόνος
3σῶζε Κωσταντεν.
1ΕΙΣΘΕΟΣ
2ΟΜΟΝΟΣ
3ΣΩΖΕΚΩΣΤΑΝΤΕΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
εἷς
Θεὸς
<lb n="2" />
ὁ
μόνος
<lb n="3" />
σῶζε
Κωσταντεν
.
</ab>

Apparatus

I. 3. The first Ν appears to have been cut over sigma. Paris and Holleaux read Κωσταντειν.

Translation:

One God, the only one, save Konstanten!

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.17.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Walls: north east gate and 140 (2004)
 Walls: north east gate and 140 (2004)
Walls: north east, with 140 (2004)
 Walls: north east, with 140 (2004)

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