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Relief plaque depicting the archangel Gabriel

Type of monument:
Christian relief plaque.
Location:
Uluborlu (Apollonia): in the house of Mehmet Somurgaç, on the road to İnhisar (with MAMA IV 210).
Description:
Fragment of upper part of white marble relief plaque, broken on all sides. Moulding above, with inscription; on main face, head of archangel Gabriel with nimbus in relief, with inscription to r.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.26; W. 0.35; Th. 0.08; letters 0.020-0.025.
Record:
MB notebook copy (1956/95).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Late antique or Byzantine period.
 
 

On upper moulding:

[- - -] Κ̣ ΤΟΝ[- - -]

Below moulding:

[ὁ ἀρ(χάγγελος)] βρι-
[Γα]- ήλ
[The archangel Ga]briel.

In line 1, the letter kappa has an abbreviation mark on the lower diagonal stroke, presumably κ(αί).

Illustrations:

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 20 (Apollonia 20: 1956-95)

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 20 (Apollonia 20: 1956-95)