8.50. Unassigned fragment of Archive Wall

Description:
Archive wall: two joining fragments (W. 0.055 x H. 0.17 x D. 0.04) with top edge surviving.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Standard second to third centuries A.D. forms.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Theatre: re-used in the defence wall across the east face of the Theatre.
Original Location:
Theatre: north parodos wall.
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.196)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, Appendix I, B.1.b whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 965 .
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 [·· ? ··]Ι̣ΕΙ̣[·· ? ··]
2 [·· ? ··]ΕΙ̣[·· ? ··]
3 [·· ? ··]ΠΙΣ[·· ? ··]
4 [·· ? ··]ΣΤ̣ [·· ? ··]
4a [·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]·Ε·[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]Ε·[ - - - ]
3[ - - - ]ΠΙΣ[ - - - ]
4[ - - - ]Σ·[ - - - ]
4a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
ε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ε
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
πισ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
σ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<lb n="4a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 144-146.

Photographs:
none.

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