100. Dedicatory poem Charlotte M. Roueché 2003

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Description of Monument

Four fragments, two of which join, from a series of long, slightly concave white marble blocks. a: two joining fragments, with left edge surviving, W. 0.76, D. 0.355; b: apparently a complete block, W. 0.535, D. 0.39; c: complete at right, perhaps at left, W. 0.485, D. 0.36.

Description of Text

Inscribed in one line along the slightly concave edge (H. 0.16).

Description of Letters

0.08; tall and clear-cut, with triangular trenches.

Date

Sixth century, or later

Edition ἐκ Μαρίης θεοπαῖδος ἀπηνέος θεοδέγμονα κῆπον νι θῆκα τὸ δῶμα
Apparatus

b: Reinach read ΘΕΟΔΕΙΜΟΝΑ which was correctly emended by Grégoire.

c: ἀνεθήκατο Grégoire; ἀνίθηκα τὸ ALA ed. 1; νι θῆκα τὸ Feissel (1991); θήκατο Feissel (2002).

Translation

a. From Mary, whose child was God, of harsh

b. the God-receiving garden

c. I set the house.

Commentary

See discussion at VII.16; for the Triconch Church see VII.15.

Found

a: Triconch Church: section 5, south wall. b: 'narthex, côté nord' of the Temple (Gaudin); found in the Temple-Church by the NYU expedition (1961: notebook 4, 15); c: 'Geira, Haus des Ishiklar, hoch oben eingemauert' (Kubitschek), 'in a house wall' (MAMA), stray find (NYU).

Original Location

Triconch Church or Temple?

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

c copied by Kubitschek (K.V.6) and by Reichel (R.I.30) and by the MAMA expedition; b recorded by Gaudin (69); a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition in 1961, 1962 and 1969 (a: 62. 437, c: 69. 360)

Bibliography

b: Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, no. 207, whence IGC 263 and, from Reichel, 264bis; c published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 603; all published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 100 and plate xxvi, whence discussion by Feissel (1991), 372, n.25, PHI 709, Steinepigramme 02/09/97.

Text Constituted From

Publications; Kubitschek and Reichel notebooks; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

A: Left end (1977)

A: Right end (1977)

A: Assembled (1972)

B: Face (1969)

C: Face (1977)

Representations

C: Transcription by Kubitschek, Notebook 5, p.6

C: Transcription by Reichel, Notebook 1, page 30

Category of Text

building inscription; verse

Category of Monument

Cornice