Description:
Fragment without edges from a large white marble ?dish/table (H. 0.18 × W. 0.165 × D. 0.025), slanted on the underside and curved on the inside.
Text:
Inscribed on the inside between lightly scored guidelines.
Letters:
Clear, irregular, 0.015 (omega) - 0.03; lunate omega, square sigma and epsilon; scroll from bar for abbreviation.
Date:
Fifth or sixth century.
Findspot:
Theatre: south post-scaenam area.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition (74.75).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 221, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 875.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1 ς̣ v.
2[·· ? ··]ω v.
3[·· ? ··]Ρ̣ΟΣ̣ v.
4[·· ? ·· ἐν]νέα κ(αὶ) δέκα
5[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΗΝΙ̣[··]
6[·· ? ··
1· 
2[ - - - ]Ω 
3[ - - - ]·Ο· 
4[ - - - ··]ΝΕΑΚΔΕΚΑ
5[ - - - ]···ΗΝ·[··]
6[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
ς
</unclear>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ω
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="3" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
σ
</unclear>
</orig>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐν
</supplied>
νέα
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αὶ
</supplied>
</expan>
δέκα
<lb n="5" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
ιιι
</unclear>
ην
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="6" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] ?nineteen [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 XI.27.

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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