2.12. Graffito images

Description:: Wall plaster fragments. A stretch of plaster with no traces of lettering.
Text:: Scratched into the plaster.
Letters:: Deeply cut graffito, letters av. 0.03.
Date:: Second 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.
Bibliography:: Illustrated in Erim, Aphrodisias, 63. Published by Roueché, ALA 218 PPA 11.F
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).

(Designs of two horsemen. Above, a very clumsy sketch of a man on a horse, holding a long pole and advancing left. Below, very sketchy outline of a similar figure. Below that, a far more careful depiction of a horse, front legs together, springing to left; the rider, in a long tunic, turns to face the viewer; he has the reins in his right hand and a long ?pole in his left. His hair forms a fringe and bunches on either side of his face.)

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Designs of two horsemen. Above, a very clumsy sketch of a man on a horse, holding a long pole and advancing left. Below, very sketchy outline of a similar figure. Below that, a far more careful depiction of a horse, front legs together, springing to left; the rider, in a long tunic, turns to face the viewer; he has the reins in his right hand and a long ?pole in his left. His hair forms a fringe and bunches on either side of his face.

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