2.11. Graffiti on plaster

Description:
Wall plaster fragments. A relatively clear stretch of plaster.
Text:
Scratched into the plaster: traces of large letters above. i: Below the letters. ii: To the right of i. iii: Some way below.
Letters:
Deeply cut graffito, letters av. 0.03.
Date:
Second 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
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, ALA 218, and again as PPA 11.E.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
i
(A facing figure in a long robe, trimmed at all edges with a hatched line. The left hand extends downwards, holding a horizontal object from which two lines, ending in circles, depend. The right hand holds ?a cornucopia.)
ii
(A half-profile of a head, crowned.)
iii
(Head and shoulders of a man, with a fringe and straight hair, wearing ?a simple tunic.)
i
(A facing figure in a long robe, trimmed at all edges with a hatched line. The left hand extends downwards, holding a horizontal object from which two lines, ending in circles, depend. The right hand holds ?a cornucopia.)
ii
(A half-profile of a head, crowned.)
iii
(Head and shoulders of a man, with a fringe and straight hair, wearing ?a simple tunic.)
<div type="textpart_section" n="i" >
<note>
A facing figure in a long robe, trimmed at all edges with a hatched line. The left hand extends downwards, holding a horizontal object from which two lines, ending in circles, depend. The right hand holds ?a cornucopia.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<note>
A half-profile of a head, crowned.
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="iii" >
<note>
Head and shoulders of a man, with a fringe and straight hair, wearing ?a simple tunic.
</note>
</div>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

Commentary:

See bibliography.

Photographs:

Face (1964)
 Face (1964)
Upper part (1964)
 Upper part (1964)
Lower part (1964)
 Lower part (1964)

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