12.328. Warning against throwing earth
- Description:
- A white marble masonry block, broken to the right (H. 1.15 × W. 0.95 × D. 0.30), with holes for clamps below the upper edge. If, as seems likely, the large cross was central to the block, the original width of the block was c. 2m, and it extended to the corner of the bastion.
- Text:
- Disposed on either side of a large inscribed cross (H. 0.85, original W. c. 0.50).
- Letters:
- 0.015-0.035; clear, cursive; in l.3. cross as an abbreviation mark over θ(εο)ῦ.
- Date:
- Fifth century or later (lettering, content).
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part): 'dans un mur du jardin' (Paris and Holleaux); 'Maison Hussein Chaous' (Reinach); re-used on the southern face of a bastion.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by Gaudin (10); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published Paris and Holleaux, , no. 13, whence Ramsay, CBP 555, no. 429; by Reinach, no. 18, from Gaudin, whence IGC 248, DACL 1, col. 193, vol. 14, col. 796, no. 23; by Cormack MAMA 8, no. 428 and plate, from the MAMA records, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 112 and plate xxix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 762.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross ὁ ῥίπτων χώματα ἐν τῷ cross τιχίῳ [ἔχει τὸ ἀνά]-
- 2θεμα ἀπὸ τῶν τιη´ πατέ cross ρων ὡ[ς ἐκθρὸς]
- 3 τοῦ cross θ(εο)ῦ cross
- 1 cross ΟΡΙΠΤΩΝΧΩΜΑΤΑΕΝΤΩ cross ΤΙΧΙΩ[······· ···]
- 2ΘΕΜΑΑΠΟΤΩΝΤΙΗΠΑΤΕ cross ΡΩΝΩ[·······]
- 3ΤΟΥ cross ΘΥ cross
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type="cross"
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ὁ
ῥίπτων
χώματα
ἐν
τῷ
<g
type="cross"
/>
τιχίῳ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἔχει
τὸ
</supplied>
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reason="lost"
>
ἀνά
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n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
θεμα
ἀπὸ
τῶν
<num
value="318"
>
τιη
</num>
πατέ
<g
type="cross"
/>
ρων
ὡ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐκθρὸς
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<lb
n="3"
/>
τοῦ
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type="cross"
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<expan>
<abbr>
θ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
εο
</supplied>
<abbr>
</expan>
ῦ
</abbr>
<g
type="cross"
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Translation:
He who throws earth (?) on the wall has anathema from the 318 fathers as an enemy of God.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VII.32.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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