1.401. Graffito figure
- Description:
- A large blue marble stylobate block.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the upper face.
- Letters:
- None.
- Date:
- Second-tenth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Tetrapylon: on the stylobate of the colonnade on the east side of the north-south road, c. 100 metres south of the Tetrapylon.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, Gameboards 9.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- (A graffito figure in a tunic, with his arms held up either holding a ? rope which hangs down in a crescent shape, or perhaps, with a large sleeve. By his right foot is an indeterminate object. His left foot is on a circle, C.2; this appears to belong to the original design.)
- (A graffito figure in a tunic, with his arms held up either holding a ? rope which hangs down in a crescent shape, or perhaps, with a large sleeve. By his right foot is an indeterminate object. His left foot is on a circle, C.2; this appears to belong to the original design.)
<note>
A graffito figure in a tunic, with his arms held up either holding a ? rope which hangs down in a crescent shape, or perhaps,
with a large sleeve. By his right foot is an indeterminate object. His left foot is on a circle, C.2; this appears to belong
to the original design.
</note>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
See Roueché, ‘Gameboards’.
Photographs:
- Face (1990)
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- Face (1990)
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