IAph: 5.13. -getos, exceptor, gives a gameboard

Description: A white marble rectangular block (w: 0.57 × h: 1.58 × d: 0.43) with a recessed panel on one face.

Text: The panel is inscribed with a gameboard, type 3Rows.4, and the text is cut on the upper rim.

Letters: Line 1, 0.02, line 2, 0.025; second cross, 0.03; neat and fairly regular; scroll for abbreviation.

Date: Fifth/sixth century. (titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: Face E(st) du pilier N(ord) (Boulanger).

Original location: Hadrianic Baths (?)

Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths, among the débris in the East court.

((Cross)) ἐ[πὶ] Ο̣[c. 4]Γ̣ΕΤΟΥ ἐξκέπτ(ορος)
( vac. 3) ἐγένετο αὐτή ((Cross))

† Ε[..].[····].ΕΤΟΥΕΞΚΕΠΤ
ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟΑΥΤΗ †

Apparatus

1: ΕΠΙΤΙΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook A); Ε[---]ΕΤ(ΟΥ) Boulanger (Notebook B)

Translation source: ALA 2004

(scil. Put up) under [---]getos, exceptor.

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks 15 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 5, whence B, 39, 5); New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA 70 and plate xvii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 624 ; ALA 2004 70, Roueché, 2007 3, IAph2007 5.13.

Fig. 1. Block (M. Roueché, 1991)

Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 3. Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 69

Fig. 4. Squeeze (M. Roueché, 1978)