Graffiti on plaster

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Wall plaster fragments. An area of plaster with several designs and traces of letters.

Description of Text

Scratched into the plaster. i. Upper register. ii. Lower register.

Letters

graffito: i: 0.01-0.02; there is perhaps an abbreviation mark over ΑΥ.

Date

First to sixth centuries A.D. (context)

Edition
Above, outline for a face; below, a face with curly hair and ?a moustache and beard. Μάρκος Αὐρήλιος Κομητις ?καὶ τὰ τεκνα There are further letters below and to the left, which have been erased: κω μοτμλ
To the left, the upper part of a facing figure, with shaggy hair, and slanting lines (? wings) rising from his shoulders. To the left, some indecipherable letters; further left, a squat figure, in a loose tunic, with no hair; perhaps a stupidus - - a buffoon.There are other faces on this panel.
Apparatus

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Translation

i: perhaps: M(arcus) Au(relius) Kometis (? for Kometas, a fairly well-attested name, or Kometes) had the nickname κεστροπος ‘?sharp-faced’

Commentary

See Performers and Partisans, ad loc.

Locations

Bouleuterion/Odeon: the easternmost recess behind the backstage corridor. Findspot Museum

Text Constituted From

Τranscription (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.448.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, ALA 218, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 784, and again PPA 11.B

Photographs

Face (1964)
i (1977)
ii (1977)
Left side (1977)