Description: White marble steps.
Text: Inscribed on upper face, each next to a gameboard: i. A board, H.4, deeply cut, (w: 0.28 × h: 0.13). ii. To the west of i, a mill game, SSS.1 (w: 0.27 × h: 0.26); iii. To the west of this, two concentric squares, apparently cut for an uncompleted board, type SSS.1 or 2 (w: 0.186 × h: 0.181).
Letters: i: roughly cut letters, with broad trenches, 0.03-0.04; ii, roughly cut, 0.07; iii, 0.03-0.04.
Date: Fourth to fifth centuries C.E. or later. (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, Temenos: top step up to south colonnade, towards east end.
Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(i): Niketas
(ii): Michael
(iii): Zerkounes. Michael
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: ii and iii Roueché, ALA 217 and plate xliv, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 596 ; i, ii, iii ALA 2004 217; i, iii Roueché, 2007 10; i, ii, iii IAph2007 1.10.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. ii (M. Roueché, 1972)