Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.10. Riddle

Description: Wall plaster fragments.

Text: Scratched into the plaster

Letters: 0.01

Date: Second 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

ζήτημα
ἄψυχον ὑπο̣ [..]ΟΥ
[c. 5] ( vac. 3) ΕΥΤ ( vac. 3)
( vac. 3)

Diplomatic

ΖΗΤΗΜΑ
ΑΨΥΧΟΝΥΠ.[··]ΟΥ
[·····]      ΕΥΤ      
      

Apparatus

5: εὐτ(υχῶς) ALA

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Riddle, lifeless . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 64.451

Publication: Roueché, ALA 218 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 786,; Roueché, PPA 11.D , whence PHI PPAphr 11 D; IAph2007 2.10; Reynolds, 2008b 12.C.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)