Description:
Painted wall plaster, painted with a tile design in tones of dull red.
Text: Roughly incised, a. above, b. lower down.
Letters: ave. 0.01.
Date: Sixth century A.D
Findspot:
Apollonia: Central Church;
found in 1958.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(a). . . . ] Help, Lord, set me upright, God.
(b). . . . ] of the Lord God [ . 3 . ] may you raise up [ . . .
Commentary
In addition to the two longer texts there are a number of isolated letters and a grid of roughly aligned crossing lines.
In b, the text was perhaps followed by 'your servant' and a name, but a quotation from Psalm 112, as in M.107, is also possible.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 45 and plate LXVII, whence SEG 27.1178; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 76.3, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2004.436.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. View of a (E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Reynolds IX.51)
Fig. 2. View of a (E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Reynolds IX.59)
Fig. 3. View of b (E.Alföldi-Rosenbaum: Reynolds IX.47)