Description:
Sandstone
keystone:
w:
0.28-0.72 x h:
0.48, depth not measurable.
Text: Inscribed on the face in paint on a plaster surface.The greater part of the plaster has been destroyed; the text was originally
seven lines longer.
Letters: Sixth century CE; 0.05.
Date: Sixth century CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
Byzantine Palace: above the door leading from the
courtyard into the chapel, in 1959.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(Not usefully translatable.)
Commentary
l.5: Perhaps from μέροπες, mortals, mankind
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 31 whence SEG 27.1186; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 103.1.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).