238. Flavius Photius gives a gameboard

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Description

• Monument: A plain white marble statue base shaft (0.54 × 1.25 × 0.55). The right side was hollowed out, to create a recessed panel.
• Text: A text of the early third century, concerning the statue which the base originally supported, was cut on the face (88.9). Within the recessed panel on the right side is a board, type 3Rows.4 (0.43 × 0.97) carefully cut, circles 0.03, central rosettes in circle 0.10. The text was inscribed on the lower edge.
• Letters: Irregular letters, ave 0.03; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.
• Date: Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).

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Translation

Under Flavius Photius, scholasticus and pater

Photographs

Whole block (1989)	Detail (1988)

Commentary

This is the third of the gameboards given by Flavius Photius; see 68, 69 and discussion at V.44 and V.47.

For Photius see List of Local Officials Photius.

Locations

• Found: Hadrianic Baths: during clearing in the Aleipterion.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.9; SBI 42).
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, 'Gameboards' 2.iii.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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