8.50. Unassigned fragment of Archive Wall
- Description:
- Archive wall: two joining fragments (W. 0.055 x H. 0.17 x D. 0.04) with top edge surviving.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Standard second to third centuries A.D. forms.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: re-used in the defence wall across the east face of the Theatre.
- Original Location:
- Theatre: north parodos wall.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.196)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, Appendix I, B.1.b whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 965 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 [·· ? ··]Ι̣ΕΙ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2 [·· ? ··]ΕΙ̣[·· ? ··]
- 3 [·· ? ··]ΠΙΣ[·· ? ··]
- 4 [·· ? ··]ΣΤ̣ [·· ? ··]
- 4a [·· ? ··
- 1[ - - - ]·Ε·[ - - - ]
- 2[ - - - ]Ε·[ - - - ]
- 3[ - - - ]ΠΙΣ[ - - - ]
- 4[ - - - ]Σ·[ - - - ]
- 4a[·· ? ··
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ι
</unclear>
ε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
πισ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
σ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
τ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="4a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
See Aphrodisias and Rome, 144-146.
- Photographs:
- none.
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