2.4. Graffiti on plaster

Description:: Wall plaster fragments. An area of plaster with several designs and traces of letters.
Text:: Scratched into the plaster. i. Upper register. ii. Lower register.
Letters:: graffito: i: 0.01-0.02; there is perhaps an abbreviation mark over ΑΥ.
Date:: First to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
Findspot:: Bouleuterion/Odeon: the easternmost recess behind the backstage corridor.
Original Location:: Findspot
Last recorded location:: Museum
History of discovery:: Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.448.
Bibliography:: Published by Roueché, ALA 218, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 784, and again PPA 11.B
Text constituted from:: Τranscription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).

i: (Above, outline for a face; below, a face with curly hair and ?a moustache and beard.); 1 Μ(?άρκος) Αὐ(?ρήλιος) Κομη̣τις ?καὶ̣ τὰ τ̣ε̣κν[·]α; 2(There are further letters below and to the left, which have been erased:) ΚΩ̣ · ΜΟ̣Τ̣Μ̣Λ̣
ii: (To the left, the upper part of a facing figure, with shaggy hair, and slanting lines (? wings) rising from his shoulders. To the left, some indecipherable letters; further left, a squat figure, in a loose tunic, with no hair; perhaps a stupidus - - a buffoon.There are other faces on this panel.)

i: (Above, outline for a face; below, a face with curly hair and ?a moustache and beard.); 1ΜΑΥΚΟΜ·ΤΙΣ?ΚΑ·ΤΑ··ΚΝ[·]Α; 2(There are further letters below and to the left, which have been erased:)Κ··Μ····
ii: (To the left, the upper part of a facing figure, with shaggy hair, and slanting lines (? wings) rising from his shoulders. To the left, some indecipherable letters; further left, a squat figure, in a loose tunic, with no hair; perhaps a stupidus - - a buffoon.There are other faces on this panel.)

<note>

Above, outline for a face; below, a face with curly hair and ?a moustache and beard.

</note>

<ab>

<expan>

<abbr>

</abbr>

άρκος

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Αὐ

</abbr>

ρήλιος

</supplied>

</expan>

Κομ

</unclear>

τις

κα

ὶ

</unclear>

τὰ

τε

</unclear>

κν

<note>

There are further letters below and to the left, which have been erased:

</note>

</unclear>

</orig>

οτμλ

</unclear>

</orig>

</ab>

</div>

<note>

To the left, the upper part of a facing figure, with shaggy hair, and slanting lines (? wings) rising from his shoulders. To the left, some indecipherable letters; further left, a squat figure, in a loose tunic, with no hair; perhaps a stupidus - - a buffoon.There are other faces on this panel.

</note>

</div>