2.15. Fragment
- Description:
- White marble revetment fragment.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face before re-use.
- Letters:
- second to third centuries; quite large.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, context)
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon: reused to patch the floor of the orchestra.
- Original Location:
- Findspot: first use unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Odeon 14).
- Bibliography:
- Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of the Odeon' in Ratté, forthcoming..
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]ΩΔ[·· ? ··]
- 1[ - - - ]ΩΔ[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ωδ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
It is inevitably tempting to suggest that this was part of the word ὠδεῖον, but there are alternatives - e.g. [τ]ῳ δ[ήμῳ], so that the temptation should be resisted.
- Photographs:
- none.
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