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217. Inscriptions with game-boards

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


Description

  • Monument: White marble steps.
  • Text: Cut on upper face, each next to a gameboard: i. A board, H.4, deeply cut, (0.13 × 0.28). ii. To the west of i, a mill game, SSS.1 (0.26 × 0.27); iii. To the west of this, two concentric squares, apparently cut for an uncompleted board, type SSS.1 or 2 (0.181 ×0.186).
  • Letters: i: roughly cut letters, with broad trenches, 0.03-0.04; ii, roughly cut, 0.07; iii, 0.03-0.04.
  • Date: Fourth-fifth century or later (names).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

i
  Νηκήτας
ii
  Μηχαήλ
iii
  Ζερκ(ού)νης
  Μιχαήλ

Translation

i: Nicetas

ii. Michael

iii. Zerkounes. Michael

Apparatus

i and ii published as a single text in ALA, without i.

Photographs

Face (1978)
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Commentary

Locations

  • Found: Temple-Church; temenos: top step up to south colonnade, towards east end: see plan 5.
  • Original: Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

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