5.13. -getos, exceptor, gives a gameboard
- Description:
- A white marble rectangular block (H. 1.58 × W. 0.57 × D. 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).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Face E(st) du pilier N(ord) (Boulanger).
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths.
- Last recorded location:
- Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.
- History of discovery:
- 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 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 624; republished by Roueché, Gameboards, no. 3.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); Boulanger notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross ἐ[πὶ] Ο̣[·· c. 4 ··]Γ̣ΕΤΟΥ ἐξκέπτ(ορος)
- 2 v. ἐγένετο αὐτή cross
- 1 cross Ε[··]·[····]·ΕΤΟΥΕΞΚΕΠΤ
- 2 ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟΑΥΤΗ cross
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
ἐ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
πὶ
</supplied>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ο
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
γ
</unclear>
ετου
</orig>
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐξκέπτ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ορος
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ἐγένετο
αὐτή
<g
type="cross"
/>
Apparatus
l. 1, ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook A); Ε[·· ? ··]ΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook B)
Translation:
(Put up) under [·· ? ··]getos, exceptor.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 V.44 and ala2004 V.48.
Photographs:
- Block (1991)
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- Detail (1972)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69
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- Squeeze (1978)
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