12.208. Gameboard
- Description:
- Large white marble block.
- Text:
- Clearly cut across the face.
- Letters:
- No measurements.
- Date:
- Second-sixth century A.D. (context).
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (north part): due north of the Museum
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Gameboards 17.i.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- (A gameboard, type 3Rows.5, with X as divider. Above, to the left, a text in deeply cut letters:)
- 1σαματισ
- (A gameboard, type 3Rows.5, with X as divider. Above, to the left, a text in deeply cut letters:)
- 1ΣΑΜΑΤΙΣ
<note>
A gameboard, type 3Rows.5, with X as divider. Above, to the left, a text in deeply cut letters:
</note>
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<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
>
</ab>
σαματισ
</orig>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
See Roueché, ‘Gameboards’.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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