111. Warning against theft Charlotte M. Roueché 2003

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Description of Monument

A smooth white marble column drum (H. 1,42, diam. 0.60).

Description of Text

Painted in red paint on a white background, below the upper edge.

Description of Letters

0.045; simple; square sigma. There are some traces of further painted decoration.

Date

Fifth/sixth century (lettering, findspot).

Edition σχῇ πρὸς τὸ βῆμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ τὴν ἐωνίαν κρίσιν ὁ κλέπτον ἐκ τοῦ τόπου τούτου τί ποτε.
Translation May he face the tribunal of Christ and the eternal judgement, he who steals anything at all from this place.
Commentary

See discussion at VII.30.

Found

Theatre: re-used in the Byzantine fortification wall constructed across the eastern end of the Theatre apparently in the seventh century.

Original Location

Unknown; perhaps Theatre Baths.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.238).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 111 whence PHI 763.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Monument (1972)

Left side (1976)

Right side (1976)

Category of Text

prohibition

Category of Monument

column