Description:
'Coarse marble masonry block, with incised tabella ansata. H. H. 0.15, W. W. 0.95' (MAMA); depth presumably not measurable.
Text:
Inscribed within tabella.
Letters:
Clearly cut and angular, very similar to 13.114; 0.0275-0.0425.
Date:
Fifth century or later (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: in the wall of the Turkish cemetery.
Original Location:
Necropolis, North-east.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (55); by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, no. 221, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 254bis; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 602 and plate 21, whence Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 165, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 755.
Text constituted from:
Publications. This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross Θεοπροπίου
2 ἐπισκόπου.
3 ζῇ.
1 cross ΘΕΟΠΡΟΠΙΟΥ
2ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ
3ΖΗ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
Θεοπροπίου
<lb n="2" />
ἐπισκόπου
.
<lb n="3" />
ζῇ.
</ab>

Translation:

(Tomb of) Theopropios, bishop. He lives.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 IX.35 and see also 13.114.

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Image from MAMA Plate 21
 Image from MAMA Plate 21

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