108. Dedicatory poem, church of SS. Barbara and Anastasia Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Three white marble fragments which join to form two blocks of a composite lintel (H. 0.15-0.18, D. 0.31-0.35) with moulding along the front and the surviving right edge; probably only a small fragment is lost to the left - the total surviving W. c. 1.50.

Description of Text

Inscribed in one line along the uppermost fascia of the moulding, which is chipped away above.

Description of Letters

0.025.

Date

Ninth/tenth century (lettering, metre)

Edition ἔνθ' ἴδε ναὸν τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρωνΒαρβαρας τε φῆμι καὶ Ἀναστασίας
Translation Here see the church of the holy martyrs, Barbara, I mean, and Anastasia.
Apparatus

The text\was wrognly presented in two lines in ALA.

Commentary

See discussion at VII.23.

Found

One block found during the excavation of the Theatre in 1969, another a stray find in 1970, a third excavated in the Sebasteion portico in 1979.

Original Location

An unidentified church.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (69.354, 70.224, 79.190).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 107 and plate xxix, whence PHI 612 xxix.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Left end fragment (1980)

Centre fragment (1977)

Right end fragment (1977)

Fragments 1 and 2 together (1980)

Category of Text

dedication; verse

Category of Monument

lintel