139. Invocations Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Interior blocks of a small gateway. i: 0.39 x 0.98, D. not measurable; ii: 0.54 × 0.34 × 1.03.

Description of Text

Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.

Description of Letters

i: c. 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.

Date

Fifth-sixth century or later (contents).

Edition φῶς ζωή Χριστὲ νίκα
Translation i. Light! Life! ii. Christ, be victorious!
Commentary

See discussion at VIII.16.

Found

City walls: at the south east corner, in the small gateway to the north of the main archway of the East Gate. See plan 7.

Original Location

Findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates xxxiii, xxxiv.

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

View of gateway (1981)

i. Text (1972)

ii. Text (1975)

Category of Text

acclamation; prayer/invocation.

Category of Monument

masonry block.