Description: Two sandstone architraves, probably from
the same monument; a. w:
0.54 x h:
0.23 x d:
0.65; b. w:
0.54 x h:
0.23 x d:
0.65.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Fourth-fifth century; 0.018; cursive omega; in a, the first 3 letters in ligature.
Date: Probably fourth to fifth centuries CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
East Church, lying to the south of the church, in 1920.
Original location: Possibly East Church, first building phase.
Last recorded location:
Findspot, 2008.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(a): perhaps a reference to 'temple' - i.e. 'church'
(b):. . . ] ? for ever and ever. Amen.
Commentary
In the first fragment the church may be being described as a ναός, as in C.762.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960, 10; Reynolds, 1976, 4 and pl. LVII; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 57.2.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. a (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. a, whole block (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. b (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. b, whole block (2008, H.Walda)