Fragments from a <rs type="textType" reg="verse">poem</rs> <seg cert="low"><rs type="textType" reg="building inscription">decorating a feature</rs></seg> in the Temple-Church

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Twenty-two white marble fragments, some joining, from the outer rim of a large circular feature (outer diam. 3 m, inner 2.55). The blocks were designed to be seen from below, and have elaborately ornamented trapezoidal panels on the underside (each 0.98 long); the panels each have a different pattern, which enables the grouping together of several fragments which do not join. The blocks are slightly convex, and the outer edge slopes outwards from bottom to top (H. 0.16); on it are a series of bosses with an ornamental cross (0.40 apart).

Description of Text

The text runs in one line between the bosses, with a continuous line incised above and below it.

Description of Letters

av. 0.09; deep triangular trenches; elongated and ornate. Colon for stop in a after φύσιν, and in b: semi-colon in a after ΡΙΣ; horizontal line over abbreviation in k.

Date

Tenth century A.D. (architecture, terminology)

Edition
ιν ι κωσ φύσιν γε ρισ ἄγγέλ ων πρωτο στάτης
λιιων σῶμα νεκρ ῶν τῷ βίῷ
ου θυηπό λου
ωσφψ
Χριστῷ
(perhaps from the end of a) αυλ
αλλ
τισι
κο
τι
Θεέ
Appartus

f. Perhaps αὐλη

Translation a. nature leader of angels b. body of the dead, by life c. priest e. Christ k. o God
Commentary

See discussion at VII.8

Locations

Found: Temple/Church: various locations, over several years.. Original location: Temple/Church.. Last recorded location: Museum..

History of Recording

Part of a, and k recorded by Gaudin (30); a-j excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962, 1963, 1964, or recorded as stray finds (62.104, 62.110, 62.174, 62.175, 62.176, 62.177, 62.178, 62.196, 62.197, 62.198, 62.199, 63.637, 64.129, and unnumbered).

Bibliography

a. (part) and k. published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 211, whence IGC 259; all published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 99 and plates xxv, xxvi (a. and c.), whence Steinepigramme 02/09/98; not in PHI.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

a. Fragment 1 (1969)
a. Fragment 1, underside (1969)
a. Fragment 2 (1969)
a. Fragment 2, underside (1969)
a. Fragment 3 (1969)
a. Fragment 3, underside (1969)
a. Fragment 4 (1969)
a. Fragment 5 (1969)
a. Fragment 6 (1969)
b. Fragment 1 (1969)
b. Fragment 1, underside (1969)
b. Fragment 3 (1969)
b. Fragment 3, underside (1969)
b. Fragment 4 (1969)
b. Fragment 4, underside (1969)
b. Assembled, left end (1972)
b. Assembled, right end (1972)
c. Fragment 1 (1969)
c. Fragment 1, underside (1969)
c. Fragment 2 (1969)
c. Fragment 3 (1969)
c. Fragment 3, underside (1969)
c. Assembled (1972)
d. Face (1969)
e. Face (1969)
f. Face (1969)
g. Face (1969)
g. Underside (1969)
i. Face (1966)
j. Face (1978)