Description:
Wall plaster fragments.
Text:
Scratched into the plaster.
Letters:
Graffito, 0.01-0.02.
Date:
First to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: the easternmost recess behind the backstage corridor.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.455.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, ALA 218, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 785, and again as PPA 11.C.
Text constituted from:
Τranscription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 Ψ vac. Νυμφέρω̣[ς ·· ? ··]
2 Ι̣ vac. Ι vac. ΜΥΣΟ̣ [·· ? ··]-
3σοι vac.
1Ψ   ΝΥΜΦΕΡ·[· - - - ]
2·   Ι   ΜΥΣ·[ - - - ]
3ΣΟΙ   
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ψ
</orig>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Νυμφέρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ω
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ι
</orig>
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
μυσ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
σοι
<space extent="3" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Nympheros [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See Roueché, PPA, ad loc.

Photographs:

Detail (1977)
 Detail (1977)

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