MAMA XI 57 (Eumeneia)
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
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[ἅ]γιον βῆ|μα Χριστοῦ
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).