Description of Monument
A white marble block, broken to the right (1.15 × 0.95 ×
0.30), with holes for clamps below the upper edge. If, as seems
likely, the large cross was central to the block, the original width
of the block was c. 2 m, and it extended to the corner of the
bastion.
Description of Text
Disposed on either side of a large inscribed cross (H.
0.85, original W. c. 0.50).
Description of Letters
0.015-0.035;
clear, cursive; in l.3. cross as an abbreviation mark over θεοῦ.
Date
Fifth century or later (lettering, content).
Edition
ὁ ῥίπτων χώματα ἐν τῷ τιχίῳ ἔχει τὸ
ἀνά
θεμα ἀπὸ τῶν τιη πατέρων ὡς ἐκθρὸς
τοῦ θεοῦ
Translation
He who throws earth ? on the wall has anathema from the 318 fathers as an enemy of God.
Commentary
See discussion at VII.32, and, for prohibitions, VII.30.
Found
City walls: 'dans un mur du jardin' (Paris and
Holleaux); 'Maison Hussein Chaous' (Reinach); re-used in eastern
stretch, on the southern face of a bastion. See
plan 7.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by Gaudin (10); by
the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published Paris and Holleaux, , no. 13, whence Ramsay, CBP 555, no. 429; by Reinach, no. 18, from Gaudin, whence IGC 248, DACL 1, col. 193, vol. 14, col. 796, no. 23; by Cormack MAMA 8, no. 428 and plate, from the MAMA records, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 112 and plate xxix, whence PHI 762.
Text Constituted From
Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
Category of Text
prohibition
Category of Monument
masonry block