<rs type="textType" reg="graffito">Graffiti</rs> representing <rs type="decoration">menoroth</rs>

Joyce M. Reynolds and Robert Tannenbaum1987

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Originally published in Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).

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Description of Monument

A marble block, perhaps part of a door post which has been cut down for re-use (0.43 × 1.29 × 0.41).

Description of Text

Graffiti incised on the front face.

Description of Letters

Irregular and not closely dateable, av. 0.01; squared Ω.

Date

Possibly no earlier than last quarter of fourth century (if indiction on l. 3), but very uncertain.

Edition υ ωρα τῷ οἴκῳτούτῳΝΔΙ
Apparatus

l. 1, just possibly a Φ at the start of this line.

l. 3, possibly from ἰνδικτιών, but a date is not particularly relevant here, so that a verb (?ἐνδιατᾶται) might be considered more probable.

Translation

this house

Commentary

[?protect] ... / [blessing on] ... / [joy on] ...

...

Locations

Found with other re-used material in the theatre, apparently part of the rubble with which the cavea was filled in the seventh century. Original location Unknown. Last recorded Lying east of theatre (1980).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (date?).

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 2.

Photographs

Text (1976)
Monument (1980)