1.10. Names with gameboards
- Description:
- White marble steps.
- Text:
- Cut on upper face, each next to a gameboard: i. A board, H.4, deeply cut, (H. 0.13 × W. 0.28). ii. To the west of i, a mill game, SSS.1 (H. 0.26 × W. 0.27); iii. To the west of this, two concentric squares, apparently cut for an uncompleted board, type SSS.1 or 2 (H. 0.181 ×W. 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 to fifth centuries A.D. or later (nomenclature).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church; temenos: top step up to south colonnade, towards east end: .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- i and ii published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 217 and plate xliv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 596; i, ii and iii published by Roueché, Gameboards 10.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Νηκήτας
- 1 Μηχαήλ
- 1 Ζερκ(ού)νης
- 2 Μιχαήλ
- 1ΝΗΚΗΤΑΣ
- 1ΜΗΧΑΗΛ
- 1ΖΕΡΚΝΗΣ
- 2ΜΙΧΑΗΛ
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Νηκήτας
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Μηχαήλ
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Ζερκ
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Μιχαήλ
Apparatus
i and ii published as a single text in ALA, without i.
Translation:
i: Niketas
ii. Michael
iii. Zerkounes. Michael
Commentary:
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- ii (1972)
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