70. -etus, exceptor, gives a gameboard Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

A white marble rectangular block (1.58 × 0.57 × 0.43) with a recessed panel on one face.

Description of Text

The panel is inscribed with a gameboard, type 3Rows.4, and the text is cut on the upper rim.

Description of Letters

l.1, 0.02, l.2, 0.025; second cross, 0.03; neat and fairly regular; scroll for abbreviation.

Date

Fifth/sixth century (titulature).

Edition ἐπὶ ογετου ἐξκέπτορος ἐγένετο αὐτή
Apparatus

Line 1: ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤΟΥ Boulanger (Notebook A); ΕΕΤΟΥ Boulanger (Notebook B)

Translation Put up under getus, exceptor.
Commentary

See discussion at V.44 and V.48.

Found

Hadrianic Baths, East court: Face Est du pilier Nord (Boulanger).

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.

History of Recording

Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 5, whence B, 39, 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 70 and plate xvii, whence PHI 624; republished by Roueché, Gameboards, no. 3.

Text Constituted From

Boulanger notebooks; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Block (1991)

Detail (1972)

Transcriptions

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69

Squeeze (1978)

Category of Text

donor's inscription; gameboard

Category of Monument

gameboard.