Description: Wall plaster fragments. An area of plaster with several designs and traces of letters.
Text: Scratched into the plaster. i. Upper register. ii. Lower register.
Letters: i: 0.01-0.02; there is perhaps an abbreviation mark over ΑΥ.
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
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
i: perhaps: M(arcus) Au(relius) Kometis (? for Kometas, a fairly well-attested name, or Kometes) had the nickname κεστροπος ‘?sharp-faced’
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 64.448
Publication: Roueché, ALA 218 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 784,; Roueché, PPA 11.B, whence PHI PPAphr 11,B, IAph2007 2.4; Reynolds, 2008b 12.B, whence SEG 58.1169
Images
Fig. 1. Face (1964)
Fig. 2. i (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. ii, right part (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. ii, left part (M. Roueché, 1977)