12.401. Invocations
- Description:
- Interior masonry blocks of a small gateway. i: H. 0.39 × W. 0.98, D. not measurable; ii: H. 0.54 × W. 0.34 × D. 1.03.
- Text:
- Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.
- Letters:
- i: c. 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth century or later (content).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east Gate: in the small gateway to the north of the main archway. .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates xxxiii, xxxiv.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1φ cross ῶς
- 2ζω cross ή
- 1Χρ cross ιστὲ
- 2νί cross κα
- 1Φ cross ΩΣ
- 2ΖΩ cross Η
- 1ΧΡ cross ΙΣΤΕ
- 2ΝΙ cross ΚΑ
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
φ
<g
type="cross"
/>
ῶς
<lb
n="2"
/>
ζω
<g
type="cross"
/>
ή
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Χρ
<g
type="cross"
/>
ιστὲ
<lb
n="2"
/>
νί
<g
type="cross"
/>
κα
</ab>
Translation:
i. Light! Life!
ii. Christ, be victorious!
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VIII.16.
Photographs:
- View of gateway (1981)
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- i. Text (1972)
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- ii. Text (1975)
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