Citation
Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 355, 356; 383, 384 - Book catalogue no.: Inscriptions cat. 03; Churches cat. 09. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92596>
Description
Local Name: Narlıger Mevkii
Local Informant: Kismet Cağdak
Local Information: Field owner's grandson recently leveled an elevated platform in the field with bulldozer. ** The Mayor's assistant said that geologically there is 50m of alluvial sediment in the valley.
Latitude: 37.41.32.557
Longitude: 28.46.51.817
Elevation: 649.33m
Dimensions: H: 0.77m; W at top: 0.37m; W at bottom: 0.46m; D: 0.43m ** H of Cross H: 0.35m, W: 0.25m ** Letter H: 0.025m-0.03m
Description: Found at Narlıger, 5 km southeast of Aphrodisias, were collection of large, white marble architectural fragments on the side of a dirt road, cleared from a neighboring field where previously there had been a raised platform. According to local informants, the owner of the field had recently leveled it. One of the blocks is a battered altar or statue ** base, originally inscribed with a dedication perhaps to Zeus, dated by Chaniotis to the third century A.D. (RS Inscriptions 3). The text was later partially defaced by a roughly carved cross. The other architectural elements seen near the inscribed block include a threshold (L: 1.44 m; W: 1.00 m; D: 0.31 m), a double-engaged half-column (H: 1.33 m; W: 0.41 m; D: 0.25 m), and a revetment fragment decorated with an inscribed bird ** (H: 0.24 m; W: 0.20 m; D: 0.05 m; Fig. 18); in addition there are also marble column bases, spiral fluted colonettes, a base molded block, marble floor tiles, and many petit appareil masonry blocks. The reinscribed base, the site, and the numerous architectural fragments could have come from a Late Roman villa, which may also have included a chapel.