Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (1.23 × 0.54 × 0.47) with panels within moulded edges on all four sides; the lower left corner, with most of the inscription, has been broken off, but survives.

Description of Text

One face is inscribed with an honorific text of the later second or third century (Reinach no. 71); on the opposite face is a board, type 3Rows.4, (0.47 x 0.97) carefully cut, with circles 0.03, central rosettes in circles 0.085; the text is on the lower moulding, which is now broken away.

Description of Letters

Av. 0.025, 0, 0.005, first 1, 0.027; irregular; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.

Date

Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).

Edition ἐπὶ Φλαβίου Φωτίου σχολαστικοῦ

Apparatus

The first cross, which is very abraded, was not read by Reinach.

Translation Under Flavius Photius, scholasticus.

Commentary

This is the first of the gameboards given by Flavius Photius; see 69, 238, and discussion at V.44 and V.47.

For Photius see List of Local Officials, Photius.

Found

Hadrianic Baths:at the northern entrance.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Recorded, complete, by Gaudin (109); by the NYU expedition in two fragments.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, no. 213, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, 264; cited by Roueché (1979), 176, ad no. 1, whence 1979.1071, 1980.473; published by Roueché, no. 68 and plate xvii, whence 622; republished by Roueché , , no. 2.i.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Fragment (1977)

Main block (1991)

Back, Reinach 71 (1993)

Category of Text

donor's inscription; gameboard

Category of Monument

statue base shaft; gameboard.