Description:
Marble panels in a threshold within the bath-building beside the extra-mural "Nymphaeum".
Text:
Incised on the top face; while a. may be complete on its stone, b. is certainly not, and must originally have extended onto flanking panels.
Letters:
Rough and uneven letters in an unprofessional hand, or pehaps several hands, probably quite late, 0.03-0.04; lunate Ε, Σ, and Ω except in the second hand of i, cursive Δ, and Μ in i, cursive Α in ii.
Date:
Third century A.D. or later (nomenclature).
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: cut on threshhold of building adjacent to "Extra-mural nymphaeum"
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1981)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 7.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).
i
a
1νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν ὁ͂δε
2Εὐσεβίου γράμματα vac.
b
(Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.)
1ΚΕ v.
ii
1[νικᾷ ἡ τύχ]η τῶν ὁ῀δε vac.
2[·· ? ··] Ζηνᾶς vac.
3[·· ? ··]Νόννος vac.
4[·· ? ··]Θε[όδ]ωρ(ο)ς vac.
5[·· ? ··]Σαββάτιο[ς]
6[·· ? ··] Κάλλιστος v.
i
a
1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΩΝΟ͂ΔΕ
2ΕΥΣΕΒΙΟΥΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ   
b
(Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.)
1ΚΕ 
ii
1[·········]ΗΤΩΝΟ῀ΔΕ   
2[ - - - ]ΖΗΝΑΣ   
3[ - - - ]ΝΟΝΝΟΣ   
4[ - - - ]ΘΕ[··]ΩΡΣ   
5[ - - - ]ΣΑΒΒΑΤΙΟ[·]
6[ - - - ]ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΟΣ 
<div type="textpart_section" n="i" >
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
νικᾷ
τύχη
τῶν
ὁ͂δε
<lb n="2" />
Εὐσεβίου
γράμματα
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<note>
Second hand: rather larger and inserted between the end of l. 1 and the right edge.
</note>
<ab>
<lb />
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
κε
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
νικᾷ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τύχ
</supplied>
η
τῶν
ὁ῀δε
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Ζηνᾶς
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Νόννος
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Θε
<supplied reason="lost" >
όδ
</supplied>
ωρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ο
</supplied>
<abbr>
ς
</abbr>
</expan>
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Σαββάτιο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Κάλλιστος
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

ii. l. 1 is restored from i. a. l. 1.

Translation:

i. The fortune triumphs of those here; writing of Eusebios

ii. [The fortune triumphs] of those here [·· ? ··] Zenas [·· ? ··] Nonnos [·· ? ··] Theodoros [·· ? ··] Sabbatios [·· ? ··] Kallistos

Commentary:

Some of the names (such as Sabbatios) seem to be Jewish or Christian, but others are not necessarily so.

Photographs:

Stone (1968)
 Stone (1968)
Squeeze, i. a. (1981)
 Squeeze, i. a. (1981)
Squeeze, i. b. (1981)
 Squeeze, i. b. (1981)

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