8.271. Table/dish fragment with numerals
- Description:
- Fragment without edges from a large white marble ?dish/table (H. 0.18 × W. 0.165 × D. 0.025), slanted on the underside and curved on the inside.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the inside between lightly scored guidelines.
- Letters:
- Clear, irregular, 0.015 (omega) - 0.03; lunate omega, square sigma and epsilon; scroll from bar for abbreviation.
- Date:
- Fifth or sixth century.
- Findspot:
- Theatre: south post-scaenam area.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition (74.75).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 221, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 875.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 ς̣ v.
- 2[·· ? ··]ω v.
- 3[·· ? ··]Ρ̣ΟΣ̣ v.
- 4[·· ? ·· ἐν]νέα κ(αὶ) δέκα
- 5[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΗΝΙ̣[··]
- 6[·· ? ··
- 1·
- 2[ - - - ]Ω
- 3[ - - - ]·Ο·
- 4[ - - - ··]ΝΕΑΚΔΕΚΑ
- 5[ - - - ]···ΗΝ·[··]
- 6[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ς
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
ω
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
ο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
σ
</unclear>
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐν
</supplied>
νέα
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αὶ
</supplied>
δέκα
<lb
n="5"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ιιι
</unclear>
ην
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
[·· ? ··] ?nineteen [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 XI.27.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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