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Altar-block with inscription

Type of monument:
Altar-block.
Location:
Haydan (Eumeneia): not recorded.
Description:
Rectangular block, broken in two. Inscription at top of front face, large cross incised below.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.50; W. 0.95; Th. 0.91; letters 0.040-0.055; cross Ht.0.33; W. 0.20.
Record:
WMC notebook copy; photograph (B only) (1954/3a).
Publication:
Paris 1884: 247, no.13; Ramsay, Phrygia II 533, no. 381.
Date:
Fourth to sixth century AD
 
 

Α Β
[ἅ]γιον βῆ|μα Χριστοῦ
|Α † Ω
Holy altar of Christ.

Two short horizontal lines are placed above the chi and iota-sigma of Χρίστου. The monument probably derives from the same church as the marble chair published by Ramsay, Phrygia II 533, no. 382 (also discovered at Haydan).

Illustrations:

Right half of MAMA XI 57 (Eumeneia 34: 1954-3a)

Right half of MAMA XI 57 (Eumeneia 34: 1954-3a)

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 57 (Eumeneia 34: 1954-3a)

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 57 (Eumeneia 34: 1954-3a)