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 (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, 0.21. ii: 0.025-0.035, partially erased; last two letters of 1. 1 above line; a cross superimposed on I. I. iii: 0.05; very rough; lost at left when large cross was sculpted. iv: 0.04, rough; above a cross, 0.14, in a circle.

Date

Fifth-sixth century or later (lettering, location).

Edition

Apparatus

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, κοωνσταντῖνος Reinach; κονσταντῖνος Grégoire.

Translation i. Lord, help your servant Theophilos, butcher. ii. Konstantinos, deacon.

Commentary

See discussion at VIII.8.

Locations

Temple/Church: west door of atrium, cut on the inner, north, face of the southern door: .. Findspot.. 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, iii 167, pl. 156; by Fellows, no. 72, from both of which CIG 8905, Ramsay, 555, no. 428; i and ii from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 206, whence Grégoire, 261a,261b, 14, col. 796, no. 22; i-iv published by Roueché no. 117 i-iv and plate xxxi, whence McCabe 638, 644, 882, 883.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); publications.

Photographs

Overview (1976)

i. Text (1976)

ii. Text (1972)

iii. Text (1976)

iv. Text (1972)

View of temple west door, from west (1972)

View from west (2004)