Description:
Four joining fragments of a white marble panel with a raised rim on all sides (1. 0.89, W. 0.65, 0. 0.16), inscribed on the face with a board, type 3Rows.4, carefully cut on the central panel (0.55 × 0.75; circles 0.04; central rosette in circle, 0.09). One side is entirely preserved, and the two ends survive in part.
Text:
Inscribed along one long side (a) and the short side to the left of it (b). The other end was not inscribed.
Letters:
The letters of the two texts are similar—irregular and rough. av. 0.03—but not identical, a appears to have been cut with a finer point, and has a simple Υ; b has Υ with a cross-bar.
Date:
Late fifth century A.D. (prosopography)
Findspot:
Theatre.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.378).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 59 a and b, and plate xv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 841, 842; republished Roueché, Gameboards, no. 5.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
a
1 cross νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τοῦ Μαρδαητο̣υ̣ cross
b
1[νικᾷ ἡ τύ]χη τῶν Πυθε̣ανιτῶν.
a
1 cross ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΟΥΜΑΡΔΑΗΤ·· cross
b
1[········]ΧΗΤΩΝΠΥΘ·ΑΝΙΤΩΝ
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
νικᾷ
τύχη
τοῦ
Μαρ
<unclear reason="undefined" >
δ
</unclear>
αητ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ου
</unclear>
<g type="cross" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
νικᾷ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τύ
</supplied>
χη
τῶν
Πυθ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
ανιτῶν
.
</ab>
</div>

Translation:

a. The fortune of Mardaetus wins!

b. The fortune of the Pytheanitae wins!

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 V.22.

Photographs:

Assembled (1983)
 Assembled (1983)
Assembled (1983)
 Assembled (1983)
Fragment (1978)
 Fragment (1978)
Fragment (1983)
 Fragment (1983)

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