Wall plaster fragments: a section of plaster very heavily covered with graffiti; there are many other indeterminate traces beyond those described here.
Description of Text
Scratched into the plaster. i: In the upper register. ii: In the upper register, to the right of i. iii: In the next register, below and to the left of i. iv: To the right of iii, below the first crowned figure in ii. v: In the third register, below and to right of iii,
Letters
graffito: i. 0.015; ii. 0.015-0.02; iv: 0.05-0.015; abbreviations, ο above Π, Κ with scroll.
Date
First to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
Edition
To the left, a large cross (c. 0. 20) drawn in outline, and filled in with hatching; it stands on a horizontal, from which a short line depends, perhaps depicting some kind of access.ΚαρμιδιανόςκαιωνπαθηκόςκυδιαΣ
Three representations of facing figures; each figure wears a radiate crown with a halo, and faces forward, with his left hand extended holding an orb surmounted by a cross. The first figure, which is damaged by later scratches, wears a toga, and stands on a rectangular support; his right hand cannot be made out. The second is seated on a throne with a back support and a cushioned seat; his feet are on a foot-rest, and his right arm appears to be across his chest. The third is also seated, with a foot-rest but no back support; he holds an orb which is marked with hatching. and apparently with his right arm supports ?a sceptre, with a round decorated top, which leans on his right shoulder; a text runs above the image, in apparent association with it - - perhaps the name of the man who drew it.Καρμιλιαινός
In the next register, below and to the left of i, a design of an organ, with a hatched upper edge, above a row of uprights terminating in circles.
A sketch of a seated figure seen from the rear; his right arm and right leg are extended, the left arm is not visible, and the left leg is drawn up. He is naked, except for a cloak which covers his left shoulder and left leg. To the left is a text, which need not be associated with the figure.Νικᾷἡτύ
χητῆςπόλεωςκαὶτοῦγράψαντος
In the third register, below and to right of iii, an image of an organ on a support. The vertical support is carefully hatched; the horizontal resting on it bears a series of uprights of graduated height, sloping upwards from left to right. There is a second virtually identical image some way below, to the left, and perhaps the sketchy outlines of a third.
Apparatus
i: Καρ̣μιδ κιος̣ ALA.
Translation
i: ?Kar[m]idianos (is a) queer. [ . . .] Karmidakios. ii: Karmilianos. iv: The fortune of the city, and of the writer, triumphs!
Commentary
See Performers and Partisans, ad loc.
Locations
Bouleuterion/Odeon: The easternmost recess behind the backstage corridor.FindspotMuseum
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.447).
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, ALA 218, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias782, 783, 788, and again as PPA 11.A