217. Inscriptions with game-boards Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

White marble steps.

Description of Text

Cut on upper face, each next to a gameboard: i. A board, H.4, deeply cut, (0.13 × 0.28). ii. To the west of i, a mill game, SSS.1 (0.26 × 0.27); iii. To the west of this, two concentric squares, apparently cut for an uncompleted board, type SSS.1 or 2 (0.181 ×0.186).

Description of Letters

i: roughly cut letters, with broad trenches, 0.03-0.04; ii, roughly cut, 0.07; iii, 0.03-0.04.

Date

Fourth-fifth century or later (names).

Edition Νηκήτας Μηχαήλ Ζερκούνης Μιχαήλ
Apparatus

i and ii published as a single text in ALA, without i.

Translation i: Nicetasii. Michaeliii. Zerkounes. Michael
Found

Temple-Church; temenos: top step up to south colonnade, towards east end: see plan 5.

Original Location

Findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

i and ii published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 217 and plate xliv, whence PHI 596; i, ii and iii published by Roueché, Gameboards 10.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1978)

Category of Text

names; gameboard

Category of Monument

steps gameboard