Description: Wall plaster fragments. A relatively clear stretch of plaster.
Text: Deeply scratched into the plaster: traces of large letters above. i: Below the letters. ii: To the right of i. iii: Some way below.
Letters: Average 0.03.
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
(A facing figure in a long robe, trimmed at all edges with a hatched line. The left hand extends downwards, holding a horizontal object from which two lines, ending in circles, depend. The right hand holds ?a cornucopia.)
ii(A half-profile of a head, crowned.)
iii(Head and shoulders of a man, with a fringe and straight hair, wearing ?a simple tunic)
(A facing figure in a long robe, trimmed at all edges with a hatched line. The left hand extends downwards, holding a horizontal object from which two lines, ending in circles, depend. The right hand holds ?a cornucopia.)
ii(A half-profile of a head, crowned.)
iii(Head and shoulders of a man, with a fringe and straight hair, wearing ?a simple tunic)
No translation required.
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1964
Publication: Roueché, ALA 218 ; Roueché, PPA 11.E ; IAph2007 2.11; Reynolds, 2008b 12.E.
Fig. 1. Face (1964)
Fig. 2. Upper part (1964)
Fig. 3. Lower part (1964)