117. Prayers on West Door of Temple-Church (south)Charlotte M. Roueché
2003
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Description of Monument
A white marble door post.
Description of Text
The texts are grouped - i above, ii and iii to the right,
iv to the left - around a cross carefully sculpted (H. 0.31) in the
centre of the door-post, with the surface of the stone cut away around
it; iii was certainly inscribed before the cross was cut.
Description of Letters
i: av. 0.03-0.04; the first line is a monogram, H.
0.21. ii: 0.025-0.035, partially erased;
last two letters of 1. 1 above line; a cross superimposed on I. I.
iii: c. 0.05;
very rough; lost at left when large cross was sculpted. iv: c.
0.04, rough; above a
cross, H. 0.14, in a
circle.
Date
Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).
i, l.1 Θεόφιλος
Reinach; earlier editors could interpret nothing.
l. 3. μασαύρη ?
Kirchhoff; Μασσάρη? Ramsay; Μαζλαρη? Reinach;
it was Grégoire who recognized the abbreviation mark standing
for κε and resolved the text, reading
Θεοφίλῳ accordingly in l.1.
ii, l.1: κωνσταντῖνος Reinach; κονσταντῖνος
Grégoire.
Translation
i. Lord, help your servant Theophilus, butcher.ii. Constantine, deacon.
Commentary
See discussion at VIII.8.
Found
Temple-Church: west door of atrium, cut on the inner,
north, face of the southern door: see
plan 5.
Original Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
i was copied by Texier and byFellows; i and ii recorded by
Gaudin (28); i-iv recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
i published by Texier, As. Min. iii 167,
pl. 156; by Fellows, no. 72, from both of which CIG 8905, Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics
555, no. 428; i and ii from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 206, whence
Grégoire, IGC261.a-b, DACL 14,
col. 796, no. 22; i-iv published by RouechéAphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 117.i-iv and plate
xxxi, whence PHI638, 644, 882, 883.