8.272. Acclamations of Mardaetus and of the Pytheanitae (gameboard)
- Description:
- Four joining fragments of a white marble panel with a raised rim on all sides (1. 0.89, W. 0.65, 0. 0.16), inscribed on the face with a board, type 3Rows.4, carefully cut on the central panel (0.55 × 0.75; circles 0.04; central rosette in circle, 0.09). One side is entirely preserved, and the two ends survive in part.
- Text:
- Inscribed along one long side (a) and the short side to the left of it (b). The other end was not inscribed.
- Letters:
- The letters of the two texts are similar—irregular and rough. av. 0.03—but not identical, a appears to have been cut with a finer point, and has a simple Υ; b has Υ with a cross-bar.
- Date:
- Late fifth century A.D. (prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.378).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 59 a and b, and plate xv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 841, 842; republished Roueché, Gameboards, no. 5.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- a
- 1 cross νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τοῦ Μαρδαητο̣υ̣ cross
- b
- 1[νικᾷ ἡ τύ]χη τῶν Πυθε̣ανιτῶν.
- a
- 1 cross ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΟΥΜΑΡΔΑΗΤ·· cross
- b
- 1[········]ΧΗΤΩΝΠΥΘ·ΑΝΙΤΩΝ
<div
type="textpart_fragment"
n="a"
>
<ab>
</ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<g
type="cross"
/>
νικᾷ
ἡ
τύχη
τοῦ
Μαρ
<unclear
reason="undefined"
>
δ
</unclear>
αητ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ου
</unclear>
<g
type="cross"
/>
<div
type="textpart_fragment"
n="b"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
νικᾷ
ἡ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τύ
</supplied>
χη
τῶν
Πυθ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ε
</unclear>
ανιτῶν
.
</ab>
Translation:
a. The fortune of Mardaetus wins!
b. The fortune of the Pytheanitae wins!
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 V.22.
Photographs:
- Assembled (1983)
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- Assembled (1983)
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- Fragment (1978)
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- Fragment (1983)
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