Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.3. Graffiti: insults and acclamations

Description: Wall plaster fragments: a section of plaster very heavily covered with graffiti; there are many other indeterminate traces beyond those described here.

Text: Scratched into the plaster. i: In the upper register. ii: In the upper register, to the right of i. iii: In the next register, below and to the left of i. iv: To the right of iii, below the first crowned figure in ii. v: In the third register, below and to right of iii,

Letters: i. 0.015; ii. 0.015-0.02; iv: 0.05-0.015; abbreviations, ο above Π, Κ with scroll.

Date: First to sixth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, Stage: The easternmost recess behind the backstage corridor.

Original location: Bouleuterion/Odeon

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

i

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Καρ[μ]ιδιανός ΚΑΙΩ̣Ν
παθηκός ( vac. 3) ΚΥΔΙΑΣ[.]
ii

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Καρμι̣λι̣αινός
iii

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iv

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Ν̣ ι̣κᾷ ἡ τύ-
χη τῆς πό(λεως) κ(αὶ) τοῦ
γράψαντος
v

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Diplomatic

i

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ΚΑΡ[.]ΙΔΙΑΝΟΣΚΑΙ.Ν
ΠΑΘΗΚΟΣ      ΚΥΔΙΑΣ[·]
ii

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ΚΑΡΜ.Λ.ΑΙΝΟΣ
iii

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iv

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..ΚΑΗΤΥ
ΧΗΤΗΣΠΟΚΤΟΥ
ΓΡΑΨΑΝΤΟΣ
v

()

Apparatus

i.1: Καρ̣μιδ κιος̣ ALA.

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

i: ?Kar[m]idianos (is a) queer. [ . . .] Karmidakios. ii: Karmilianos. iv: The fortune of the city, and of the writer, triumphs!

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 64.447

Publication: Roueché, ALA 218 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 782, 783, 788 , Chaniotis, 2011 204 (i), whence SEG 61.847 ; Roueché, PPA 11.A , whence PHI PPAphr 11A,i, PPAphr 11A,ii, PPAphr 11A,iv, IAph2007 2.3; Reynolds, 2008b 12.A, (whence SEG 58.1169)

Images

Fig. 1. Face in situ (1964)

Fig. 2. i, detail (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. ii, third figure (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 4. iv, detail (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 5. Left side detail (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 6. Left side detail (M. Roueché, 1977)