2.401. Gameboard and pavement designs, Bishop's Palace

Description:
White marble paving slabs.
Text:
Cut on the face.
Letters:
None.
Date:
Second-tenth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, West area: Bishop’s palace, i. on the floor of a corridor leading to the Odeon; ii. on a loose slab in the central peristyle court
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Gameboards 16.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
i
(a roughly cut board type 3 Rows.4, with an outline (0.39 x 0.575); very worn.)
ii
(a carefully cut variant on type CCCC.1 (diam. 0.42). There is no central circle, and the external lines are modified; two bend outwards with ? leaves at the ends, to point towards the perimeter, with ? leaves at the inner ends.)
i
(a roughly cut board type 3 Rows.4, with an outline (0.39 x 0.575); very worn.)
ii
(a carefully cut variant on type CCCC.1 (diam. 0.42). There is no central circle, and the external lines are modified; two bend outwards with ? leaves at the ends, to point towards the perimeter, with ? leaves at the inner ends.)
<div type="textpart_section" n="i" >
<note>
a roughly cut board type 3 Rows.4, with an outline (
0.39
x
0.575
); very worn.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<note>
a carefully cut variant on type CCCC.1 (diam.
0.42
). There is no central circle, and the external lines are modified; two bend outwards with ? leaves at the ends, to point towards the perimeter, with ? leaves at the inner ends.
</note>
</div>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

See Roueché, ‘Gameboards’.

Photographs:

i (1975)
 i (1975)
ii (1975)
 ii (1975)

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