15.280. Gladiator memorial for Pheropes
- Description:
- The right side and lower edge of a white marble panel-stele without raised moulding (H. 0.44 x W. 0.325 x D. 0.165). The relief shows the lower part, from the chest downwards, of a gladiator (a retiarius) wearing body armour, with bare legs, advancing to his left; he holds a short sword in his right hand and the staff of a trident (whose head is lost) in his left.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the lower edge
- Letters:
- letters standard forms, but simple, and irregular in height, 0.02-0.028. Α within Π as abbreviation
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Stray
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1968 (excavation inventory no. 68.721).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 24.
- Text constituted from:
- transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[·· c. 5 ··] Φέροπες πά(λου) η̣´
- 1[·····]ΦΕΡΟΠΕΣΠΑ·
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
/>
Φέροπες
<expan>
<abbr>
πά
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
λου
</supplied>
<num
value="8"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</num>
η
</unclear>
Apparatus
The number might possibly be a gamma, but is far more easily read as eta.
Translation:
[.....] Pheropes of brigade 8 (?).
Commentary:
Although there is room for a longer name, this is probably a version of the attested Φέροψ (Robert, Gladiateurs, 300; see also BullÉp 1966.256, from A. Balkanska, Archeologia 7 (1965), 32-5). See further PPA ad loc.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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