15.102. Invocation

Description:
A white marble head, broken off from a lost statue, of a bearded male, probably of the first half of the fifth century.
Text:
The text is cut on the top of the head, on the smooth area immediately behind the ridge of curly hair crowning the face, to be read from the front.
Letters:
Carefully cut, but varying in size from 0.01-0.015 in the first line to 0.0175 to 0.02 (beta) and 0.028 (eta) in the second line.
Date:
Fourth to fifth centuries A.D. (content, location).
Findspot:
No details; in collection.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Musée du Cinquentenaire, Brussels (1988)
History of discovery:
Excavated by Gaudin: on the provenance see K. T. Erim, 'De Aphrodisiade', AM 71 (1967), 236.
Bibliography:
Published by F. Cumont, Catalogue des sculptures et inscriptions antiques des Musées Royaux du Cinquentenaire (Brussels, 1913), 51, no. 41, whence Graindor, Marbres et textes, Rec. de trav. de la fac. de phil. de Gand, fasc. 50, 18-19; Grégoire, IGC 248bis; by K. T. Erim in lnan-Rosenbaum, Porträtplastik, 232, no. 204, whence SEG 1982.1108; SEG 1985.1082; Spätantike & Frühes Christentum, Ausst. Frankfurt (Frankfurt, 1984) 454-456, no. 62 with plate; Goette, MDAIRA 92 (1985), 318, no. IV.3. Text published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 145 and Plate xxxiii whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 655. Text and statue discussed most recently by Smith (2002)
Text constituted from:
Publications; Description, photograph and squeeze provided by Professor J.-C. Balty. This edition Roueché (2007).
1ΧΜΓ
2Θ(ε)ὲ βοήθι.
1ΧΜΓ
2ΘΕΒΟΗΘΙ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ΧΜΓ
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Θ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ε
</supplied>
<abbr>
ὲ
</abbr>
</expan>
βοήθι
.
</ab>

Translation:

?M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist). God, help.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 VIII.20, and compare 3.8.ii.

Photographs:

Detail (1988)
 Detail (1988)

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