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90. Orthagoras, bishop, undertakes building work

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: Fragment from a white marble slab (0.25 × 0.23 × 0.07), of which part of the left side survives.
  • Text: Inscribed on the face.
  • Letters: 0.02-0.03; irregular, clear.
  • Date: Sixth century (lettering)

Text [Font help][Conventions]

  [...]
  [..]ο θεοφιλ[έσ-
  τ]ατος ἐπ[ίσκο-
  πο]ς Ὀρθαγό[ρας]
  [κα]ὶ τοῦτο ε[... c. 3 ...]
[.]ω ὑπὸ αὐτ[?ὸ... c. 3 ...]
  ἐξέχωσα ο[... c. 3 ...]
  μησατο[... c. 4 ...]
  αψ[... c. 8 ...]
  [...]

Translation

The bishop most dear to God, Orthagoras [?also made] this [...] beneath it [...]? I cleared out [...]

Photographs

Face (1977)
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Commentary

See discussion at VI.36 and, for Orthagoras, List of Bishops Orthagoras.

Locations

  • Found: Theatre: south analemma.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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