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Inscription recording the restoration of a church of the Archangel
Type of monument
Inscription recording the restoration of a church of the Archangel.
Location
Uluborlu (Apollonia): in the threshold of Bahçe Camii.
Description
Plain limestone block. In the centre of the inscribed face, an incised Latin cross (Ht. 0.22), later defaced by a circular sinking (depth 0.015) and channel running from it to the top edge of the stone.
Dimensions
Ht. 0.40;
W. 0.67;
Th. 0.24;
letters 0.025-0.040.
Record
Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/92).
Publication
MAMA IV 225; (Foss 1977: 285-8; SEG 27, 899); Labarre, Özsait, Özsait and Güceren 2012: 137-8, no.28.
ἀνήγειρε? | Θεόδοτος MAMA IV; Α̣Ν̣ . . ΟΥΤΙ̣ Labarre et al.
ἑβδομικοστοῦ MAMA IV.
The palace of the Archangel is restored, in the 678th year.
Commentary
In line 6, the penultimate omicron was omitted by the mason. The reading of the final letter is uncertain; only a single vertical stroke can be seen clearly on the squeeze. For the combination of ordinal adjectives and numerals to indicate a date, cf. MAMA XI 80 (1956/36: Sebaste).
Foss 1977: 285-8 showed from the evidence of earlier dated inscriptions that the Sullan era was in use at Apollonia in the Roman imperial period (accepted by BE 1978, 39, and Leschhorn 1993: 274-6; for the dated inscriptions of Apollonia, see Leschhorn 1993: 501-2). This inscription is thus one of the very latest monuments to have been dated by the Sullan era; note also Drew-Bear 1978: IV 50 (SEG 28, 1130: Eumeneia, AD 563/4). The Aktian era was still in use at Philadelpheia in Lydia in the early sixth century (TAM V 3, 1882-4), and the Galatian provincial era was still in use at Ankara in AD 569/70 (SEG 42, 1163).
The ‘palace of the Archangel’ is likely to be a church (TIB Phrygien 387-8, s. Sōzopolis). No buildings of the sixth century have been recorded from Apollonia; the surviving fortifications are dated by Foss 1982: 152-7 to the eleventh and twelfth centuries.