13.508. Heliodoros, ?builder or donor
- Description:
- Fragment from a blue-grey marble lintel or cornice block (H. 0.25 × W. 0.14 × D. 0.38) with a moulded profile.
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line on one fascia (H. H. 0.05) of front moulding.
- Letters:
- 0.025; clear and irregular; scroll for abbreviation; ΩΡ in ligature.
- Date:
- Fifth to seventh centuries A.D. (lettering, terminology)
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South-west: Found among the ruins of a small building some way outside the southwestern stretch of the city walls.
- Original Location:
- ?An unidentified church
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Found by the NYU expedition in 1973.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 106 and plate xxviii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 611.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 v. cross Ἡλιόδωρος ὁ ἐλάχ(ιστος) [·· ? ··]
- 1 cross ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΣΟΕΛΑΧ[ - - - ]
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type="cross"
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Ἡλιόδ
ωρ
ος
ὁ
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐλάχ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ιστος
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Heliodoros, the least of men, [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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