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Description of Monument
A white marble head, broken off from a lost statue, of a
bearded man, probably of the first half of the fifth century.
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Description of Text
The text is cut on the top of the head, on the smooth area
immediately behind the ridge of curly hair crowning the face, to be
read from the front.
Description of Letters
Carefully cut, but varying in size from 0.01-0.015 in the first line to
0.0175 to 0.02 (beta) and 0.028 (eta) in the second
line.
Date
Fourth-fifth century (content, location).
Edition
ΧΜΓ·
Θεὲβοήθι.
Apparatus
Line 1: perhaps *XRISTO\N*MARI/A GENNA=|
Translation
?Mary bore Christ. God, help.
Commentary
See discussion at VIII.20, and compare 254.
Found
No description.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Musée du Cinquentenaire, Brussels.
History of Recording
Excavated by Gaudin: on the provenance see K. T. Erim,
'De Aphrodisiade', AM 71 (1967), 236.
Bibliography
Published by F. Cumont, Catalogue des sculptures et
inscriptions antiques des Musées Royaux du
Cinquentenaire (Brussels, 1913), 51, no. 41, whence Graindor,
Marbres et textes, Rec. de trav. de la fac. de phil. de
Gand, fasc. 50, 18-19; Grégoire, IGC248bis; by K. T. Erim in lnan-Rosenbaum,
Porträtplastik, 232, no. 204, whence SEG1982.1108; SEG1985.1082; Spätantike & Frühes Christentum, Ausst.
Frankfurt (Frankfurt, 1984) 454-456, no. 62 with plate;
Goette, MDAIRA 92 (1985), 318, no. IV.3. Text published by
Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
no. 145 and Plate xxxiii whence PHI655. Text and statue discussed most recently by Smith (2002)
Text Constituted From
Publications; Description, photograph and squeeze provided by Professor
J.-C. Balty.