140. Invocation for <seg cert="uncertain" part="N">Co<supplied reason="omitted">n</supplied>stantius</seg> Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of monument

A white marble block (0.58 x 0.83, D. not measurable; these measurements were made by the MAMA expedition), broken above (MAMA viii wrongly describes it as broken at the right). Letters:

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.06-0.07; lunate sigma, square epsilon and omega.

Date

First half fourth century (content, location).

Edition εἷς Θεὸςὁ μόνοςσῶζε Κωσταντεν.
Apparatus

I. 3. The first Ν appears to have been cut over sigma. Paris and Holleaux read Κωσταντειν.

Translation One God, the only one, save Constanten!
Commentary

See discussion at VIII.17.

Found

City walls: in the highest course of large blocks in the standing stretch of city wall immediately north of the north-east gate: see plan 7.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Copied by Paris and Holleaux; recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9, 1885, 84, no. 14, whence Ramsay, Cities & Bishoprics 554, no. 424, Grégoire, IGC 253, Cabrol DACL. 14, col. 795, no. 18, Peterson, Heis Theos 78; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 459, whence Robert, Hellenica 13, 157; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 140 and plate xxxiii, whence PHI 647.

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1973)

Walls: north east gate and 140 (2004)

Walls: north east, with 140 (2004)

Category of Text

prayer/invocation; acclamation.

Category of Monument

masonry block.