5.15. Flavius Photios gives a gameboard
- Description:
- A plain white marble statue base shaft (H. 0.54 × W. 1.25 × D. 0.55), complete above and broken below. The right side was hollowed out, to create a recessed panel.
- Text:
- The text is on the lower edge of a gameboard (type 3Rows.4, H. 0.43 × W. 0.97, carefully cut, circles 0.03, central rosettes in circle 0.10), within the recessed panel on the right side; the text is cut level with the top of a second text (not yet published) on the adjacent side.
- Letters:
- Irregular letters, ave 0.03; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.
- Date:
- Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: during clearing in the Aleipterion
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.9; SBI 42).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché, 'Gameboards' 2.iii; republished by •Roueché (2004), 238.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 cross cross ἐπὶ Φλ(αβίου) Φωτίου σχο(λαστικοῦ) κ(αὶ) πατρ(ός) cross
- 1 cross cross ΕΠΙΦΛΦΩΤΙΟΥΣΧΟΚΠΑΤΡ cross
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ἐπὶ
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Φλ
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αβίου
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Φωτίου
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σχο
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λαστικοῦ
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κ
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αὶ
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πατρ
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ός
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Translation:
Under Flavius Photios, scholasticus and pater
Commentary:
ii. This is the third of the gameboards given by Flavius Photios; see 5.10, 5.14 and discussion at ala2004 V.44 and ala2004 V.47.
Photographs:
- Face ii. (1989)
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- Face ii. detail (1988)
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- Both faces (2004)
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