Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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70. -etus, exceptor, gives a gameboard
Description
- Monument:
A white marble rectangular block (1.58 × 0.57 × 0.43) with a recessed panel on one face.
- Text:
The panel is inscribed with a gameboard, type 3Rows.4, and the text is cut on the upper rim.
- Letters:
l.1, 0.02, l.2, 0.025; second cross, 0.03; neat and fairly regular; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
Fifth/sixth century (titulature).
Text
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cross ἐ[πὶ] ο̣[... c. 4 ...]γ̣ετου ἐξκέπτ(ορος)
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vac. ἐγένετο αὐτή cross
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Translation
(Put up) under [...]getus, exceptor.
Apparatus
Line 1: ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook A); Ε[...]ΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger
(Notebook B)
Photographs
| Block (1991) |
Detail (1972) |
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Representations
| Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69 |
Squeeze (1978) |
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Commentary
See discussion at V.44 and V.48.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths, East court: Face E(st) du pilier N(ord) (Boulanger).
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 5, whence B, 39, 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 70 and plate xvii, whence PHI 624; republished by Roueché, Gameboards, no. 3.
- Text constituted from:
Boulanger notebooks; transcription (Roueché).
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