<rs type="textType">Monogram</rs>s of <seg cert="low">donors</seg>, Mamas and Pakos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Two flat-sided white marble column capitals, each inscribed on the long side, a: H. 0.55, W. 1.10; b: H. 0.50, W. 1.20.

Description of Text

Arranged around a cross.

Description of Letters

Clearly cut, with triangular trenches; a: 0.035; b: 0.02.

Date

Sixth century A.D., or later (form of monogram).

Edition

Μαμᾶ

Πακοῦ

Translation i. Gift of Mamas ii. Gift of Pakos

Commentary

See discussion at VII.17.

Locations

City, South-west: lying on the surface of a ploughed field just inside the south-east stretch of the city walls.. An unidentified church. Findspot..

History of Recording

Rcorded by the NYU expedition in 1983.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 103 and plate xxvii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 629, 630.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

A: Face (1983)

B: Face (1983)

Representations

Drawing of Monogram A

Drawing of Monogram B