Description: Set of three limestone steps (w:
0.85 x h:
0.27)
from the stairs to an ambon.
Text: Inscribed on the upper surface of the topmost tread.
Letters: Perhaps sixth century; 0.05 - 0.065; cursive omega. Rather irregular.
Date: Sixth century
Findspot:
Cyrene:
re-used in early Arab buildings on the site of the East Church.
Found in 1956.
Original location: Probably the East Church
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1956)
1: ΜΗΚ in ligature
Commentary
New Rome is presumably Constantinople; this is apparently an acclamation of the two cities.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1960 pp.285-6, 3, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1961.835, SEG 18.748, whence PHI 324450; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 153.17
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds, II.100)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds, IIΙ.92)