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Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Interior masonry blocks of a small gateway. i: 0.39 × 0.98, D. not measurable; ii: 0.54 × 0.34 × 1.03.

Description of Text

Text i is cut on a block at the entrance to the passage, on the north side; ii is cut on the facing block on the south side. Both inscriptions are disposed around a shallowly-cut cross.

Description of Letters

i: 0.035; ii, 0.04-0.06; diaeretic dots on Ι.

Date

Fifth-sixth century or later (content).

Edition φ ῶς ζω ή Χρ ιστὲ νί κα
Translation i. Light! Life! ii. Christ, be victorious!
Commentary

See discussion at VIII.16.

Locations

Walls, South-east Gate: in the small gateway to the north of the main archway. .Findspot.Findspot..

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (118, 119); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, no.s. 214, 215, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 265, 266; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 458, ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 139 and plates xxxiii, xxxiv.

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

View of gateway (1981)
i. Text (1972)
ii. Text (1975)