12.16. Gladiator memorial for [?Margar]eites
- Description:
- A white marble altar-stele, with moulding above and below (H. H. 0.88, W. W. 0.43, D. D. 0.38). The relief is of a heavily armed gladiator, with a short sword in right hand, a long shield in the left, and a crested helmet, advancing to the right.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the upper moulding, which is broken
- Letters:
- lunate sigma and ?epsilon; 0.035.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D.(content, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, North: to the north of the north wall of the Stadium (1892) with 12.15, 12.13
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Reichel (R.I.21) with 12.15, 12.13 and by Kubitschek (K.III, endpaper); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Mentioned by Kubitschek and Reichel, no.2, whence Robert, Gladiateurs, no 160; published from Reichel's notes by Robert, Hell. V, 93-5. Published by Roueché, PPA 27.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· ? ··]Ε̣ΙΤΗΣ
- 1[ - - - ]·ΙΤΗΣ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ε
</unclear>
ΙΤΗΣ
</ab>
Translation:
[?Margar]eites.
Commentary:
Robert conjectured [The]rsites, followed by Roueché; but both Kubitschek and Reichel read a lunate epsilon.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Reichel notebook, I.21
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- Kubitschek notebook, III, 63
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