Description: Two joining fragments of a white marble beam with a simple moulding: w: together, 2.12 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.41
Text: Painted in red on a white background within a red frame along the lower edge; now in fairly bad condition.
Letters: Elegant, 0.09; lunate sigma, epsilon.
Date: First – sixth century CE (context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage, , from a series of such beams which spanned the space between the Zoilos architrave and the front of the stage buildings; it seems likely, although not yet certain, that this block would have run at right angles to .
Original location: Theatre: stage building
Last recorded location: Findspot
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 70.562
Publication: Roueché, PPA 4 , whence PHI PPAphr 4; IAph2007 8.6.
Images
Fig. 1. Left hand block (M. Roueché, 1972)