8.601. Pavement designs

Description:
White marble stylobate and paving blocks.
Text:
Cut on the upper face of the blocks
Letters:
None.
Date:
Second-tenth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:
Theatre Baths, east portico: eastern colonnade, i-iii on the stylobate: i. between columns 2 and 3. ii. between columns 6 and 7. iii. between columns 5 and 6. iv. on the paving at the north entrance. v. on the paving of the street itself.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Gameboards 4.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
i
(A board, type 3Rows.1, roughly cut and without a border (0.30 x 0.67); central line incomplete.)
ii
(A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (0.48 x 0.58).)
iii
(A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (0.29 x 0.60). A cross has been cut across the frame at the west end.)
iv
( Two roughly cut boards, type 3Rows.1, with traces of a third; none have borders; there are also 3 type H.4.)
v
(Several circles, including one clearly but irregularly cut, type C.4.)
i
(A board, type 3Rows.1, roughly cut and without a border (0.30 x 0.67); central line incomplete.)
ii
(A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (0.48 x 0.58).)
iii
(A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (0.29 x 0.60). A cross has been cut across the frame at the west end.)
iv
( Two roughly cut boards, type 3Rows.1, with traces of a third; none have borders; there are also 3 type H.4.)
v
(Several circles, including one clearly but irregularly cut, type C.4.)
<div type="textpart_section" n="i" >
<note>
A board, type 3Rows.1, roughly cut and without a border (
0.30
x
0.67
); central line incomplete.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<note>
A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (
0.48
x
0.58
).
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="iii" >
<note>
A board, type 3Rows.1, scratched, with a frame (
0.29
x
0.60
). A cross has been cut across the frame at the west end.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="iv" >
<note>
Two roughly cut boards, type 3Rows.1, with traces of a third; none have borders; there are also 3 type H.4.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="v" >
<note>
Several circles, including one clearly but irregularly cut, type C.4.
</note>
</div>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

See Roueché, ‘Gameboards’.

Photographs:

iii (1983)
 iii (1983)
v (1985)
 v (1985)

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