Description:
A plain white marble statue base shaft (H. 0.54 × W. 1.25 × D. 0.55), complete above and broken below. The right side was hollowed out, to create a recessed panel.
Text:
The text is on the lower edge of a gameboard (type 3Rows.4, H. 0.43 × W. 0.97, carefully cut, circles 0.03, central rosettes in circle 0.10), within the recessed panel on the right side; the text is cut level with the top of a second text (not yet published) on the adjacent side.
Letters:
Irregular letters, ave 0.03; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.
Date:
Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: during clearing in the Aleipterion
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.9; SBI 42).
Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché, 'Gameboards' 2.iii; republished by •Roueché (2004), 238.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross cross ἐπὶ Φλ(αβίου) Φωτίου σχο(λαστικοῦ) κ(αὶ) πατρ(ός) cross
1 cross cross ΕΠΙΦΛΦΩΤΙΟΥΣΧΟΚΠΑΤΡ cross
<div type="textpart_section" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<g type="cross" />
ἐπὶ
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αβίου
</supplied>
</expan>
Φωτίου
<expan>
<abbr>
σχο
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
λαστικοῦ
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αὶ
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
πατρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ός
</supplied>
</expan>
<g type="cross" />
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

Under Flavius Photios, scholasticus and pater

Commentary:

ii. This is the third of the gameboards given by Flavius Photios; see 5.10, 5.14 and discussion at ala2004 V.44 and ala2004 V.47.

Photographs:

Face ii. (1989)
 Face ii. (1989)
Face ii. detail (1988)
 Face ii. detail (1988)
Both faces (2004)
 Both faces (2004)

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