219. Text at an entrance Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Two blue marble columns (diam. 0.53 × i: H. 0.85, ii: H. 3.62).

Description of Text

i: Inscribed at 0.37 above base. ii: repaired in antiquity at the right. Inscribed at 0.96 above the lower end.

Description of Letters

Irregular, 0.03-0.04, lunate; very worn.

Date

Sixth century or later (monogram).

Edition αβκο ἐστὶν ἡ εἴσοδος τοῦ κιλοθαταου λονος τούτου
Apparatus

ii: ll. 2-3. Perhaps κατὰ τοῦ πυλο͂νος τούτου; but I cannot make out any traces of letters before ΛΟΝΟΣ in l. 3.

Translation ii. The entrance of the is
Found

Fields: field c. 200 north-west of the Temple-Church, half-buried.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 219, whence PHI 879, 880.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Column i (1976)

Column ii (1978)

Representations

Drawing of Monogram

Category of Text

monogram; prayer/invocation.

Category of Monument

column.