Abstract:Around 500 ce, the magnificent Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias (Turkey) was deconstructed and rebuilt as an even larger church. During this process, several ancient inscriptions from the temple and from elsewhere, including building dedications and records of column donations, were incorporated into the new Christian sacred space. Previous studies of the temple-church have fixated on the original, Roman-period texts of the inscriptions and their historical contexts, to the exclusion of exploring their late antique reuse, the selective erasures that took place, and the potential meanings that these older texts, which were still legible to educated Greek-speaking viewers, may have held for the Christianizing city. By documenting the display of these older inscriptions in the architectural spaces of the temple-church, I argue that they continued to impart to the people of Aphrodisias a conception of their shared civic history centered on local elites and connections with distant Roman rulers. Moreover, the viewing of these older inscriptions in conjunction with the late antique graffiti in the church highlights the change in euergistic and epigraphic habits in Late Antiquity and reveals the democratization of commemorative practice in the early Christian period.

中文翻译：

---

隐藏在普通视线中：阿佛洛狄西亚圣殿教堂的碑文重用

摘要：公元 500 年左右，位于阿佛洛狄西亚斯（土耳其）的宏伟的阿佛洛狄忒神庙被解构并重建为一座更大的教堂。在这个过程中，寺庙和其他地方的几处古代铭文，包括建筑奉献和柱子捐赠记录，都被纳入了新的基督教圣地。之前对圣殿教堂的研究都集中在原始的罗马时期的铭文文本及其历史背景上，而没有探索它们晚期的古董再利用、发生的选择性擦除以及这些旧文本的潜在含义，对于受过教育的讲希腊语的观众来说仍然清晰易读，可能已经为这座基督教化的城市所持有。通过记录这些古老铭文在寺庙教堂的建筑空间中的展示，我认为，他们继续向阿佛洛狄西亚斯的人民传授他们共同的公民历史的概念，该概念以当地精英和与遥远的罗马统治者的联系为中心。此外，结合教堂内的晚期古董涂鸦来观看这些较旧的铭文，突出了上古晚期的优格和金字习惯的变化，并揭示了早期基督教时期纪念活动的民主化。