Description:
A white marble rectangular block (H. 1.58 × W. 0.57 × D. 0.43) with a recessed panel on one face.
Text:
The panel is inscribed with a gameboard, type 3Rows.4, and the text is cut on the upper rim.
Letters:
l.1, 0.02, l.2, 0.025; second cross, 0.03; neat and fairly regular; scroll for abbreviation.
Date:
Fifth/sixth century (titulature).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Face E(st) du pilier N(ord) (Boulanger).
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location:
Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.
History of discovery:
Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 5, whence B, 39, 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 70 and plate xvii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 624; republished by Roueché, Gameboards, no. 3.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché); Boulanger notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
1 cross ἐ[πὶ] Ο̣[·· c. 4 ··]Γ̣ΕΤΟΥ ἐξκέπτ(ορος)
2 v. ἐγένετο αὐτή cross
1 cross Ε[··]·[····]·ΕΤΟΥΕΞΚΕΠΤ
2 ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟΑΥΤΗ cross
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
πὶ
</supplied>
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
ετου
</orig>
<expan>
<abbr>
ἐξκέπτ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ορος
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἐγένετο
αὐτή
<g type="cross" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook A); Ε[·· ? ··]ΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook B)

Translation:

(Put up) under [·· ? ··]getos, exceptor.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 V.44 and ala2004 V.48.

Photographs:

Block (1991)
 Block (1991)
Detail (1972)
 Detail (1972)

Representations:

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69
 Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69
Squeeze (1978)
 Squeeze (1978)

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