70. -etus, exceptor, gives a gameboard

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History

Description

• Monument: A white marble rectangular block (1.58 × 0.57 × 0.43) with a recessed panel on one face.
• Text: The panel is inscribed with a gameboard, type 3Rows.4, and the text is cut on the upper rim.
• Letters: l.1, 0.02, l.2, 0.025; second cross, 0.03; neat and fairly regular; scroll for abbreviation.
• Date: Fifth/sixth century (titulature).

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Translation

(Put up) under [...]getus, exceptor.

Apparatus

Line 1: ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook A); Ε[...]ΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook B)

Photographs

Block (1991)	Detail (1972)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69	Squeeze (1978)

Commentary

See discussion at V.44 and V.48.

Locations

• Found: Hadrianic Baths, East court: Face E(st) du pilier N(ord) (Boulanger).
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.

History

• Recording: Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 5, whence B, 39, 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 70 and plate xvii, whence PHI 624; republished by Roueché, Gameboards, no. 3.
• Text constituted from: Boulanger notebooks; transcription (Roueché).

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