Description:
A white marble altar-stele, with moulding above and below (H. H. 0.88, W. W. 0.43, D. D. 0.38). The relief is of a heavily armed gladiator, with a short sword in right hand, a long shield in the left, and a crested helmet, advancing to the right.
Text:
Inscribed on the upper moulding, which is broken
Letters:
lunate sigma and ?epsilon; 0.035.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D.(content, lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, North: to the north of the north wall of the Stadium (1892) with 12.15, 12.13
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Reichel (R.I.21) with 12.15, 12.13 and by Kubitschek (K.III, endpaper); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Mentioned by Kubitschek and Reichel, no.2, whence Robert, Gladiateurs, no 160; published from Reichel's notes by Robert, Hell. V, 93-5. Published by Roueché, PPA 27.
Text constituted from:
Publications; notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· ? ··]Ε̣ΙΤΗΣ
1[ - - - ]·ΙΤΗΣ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ε
</unclear>
ΙΤΗΣ
</ab>

Translation:

[?Margar]eites.

Commentary:

Robert conjectured [The]rsites, followed by Roueché; but both Kubitschek and Reichel read a lunate epsilon.

Photographs:
none.

Representations:

Reichel notebook, I.21
 Reichel notebook, I.21
Kubitschek notebook, III, 63
 Kubitschek notebook, III, 63

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