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[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<g type="cross" />
Ἡλιόδ
ωρ
ος
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐλάχ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ιστος
</supplied>
</expan>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Translation:

Heliodoros, the least of men, [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)

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