12.540. ?Dedicator's prayer
- Description:
- An Ionic column capital, lying half buried. No measurements.
- Text:
- Inscribed on two consecutive faces of the upper moulding (abacus).
- Letters:
- No description; perhaps a small circle for stop.
- Date:
- Early or middle Byzantine
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east: very near the site of 12.516.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Bailie (see Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 21, 26 June 1843, 50); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Bailie, no. 72e, whence LBW 1649, IGC 251, Ramsay, CBP 554, no. 423, DACL col. 795, no. 17, Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 109, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 640.
- Text constituted from:
- Bailie; no illustration. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 [·· ? ··] Λ̣Θ [··] ΟΗΒΑΣΙ [·] ΙΑΞΟΨ stop Τ [··] ΝΟ̣ [·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]·Θ[··]ΟΗΒΑΣΙ[·]ΙΑΞΟΨ stop Τ[··]Ν·[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
θ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
οηβασι
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ιαξοψ
</orig>
<g
type="stop"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
τ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ν
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ο
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Translation:
No words determinable
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VII.24.
- Photographs:
- none.
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