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 R.S. Bagnall R. Casagrande-Kim A. Ersoy C. Tanriver B. Yolaçan Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna First published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the New York University Press, 2016. New York 2016 EDR SMYT00082 AGP AGP-SMYT00082 Cursive; miniscule . Letter heights: Lower 2.3 cm and in circles 4 cm Smyrna 0180-0300 C.E. Basilica of the Agora of Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey

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This is the beginning of a riddle, of which whatever else was written is now lost under the new layer of plaster applied just below it (cf. T8.1). It is possible also that nothing more was written. cf. T28.1. ἀπόλωλε is a possible interpretation, but the apparent iota in the last circle is puzzling. as it stands at the extreme left of the available space inside the circle, perhaps nu was intended or written but now mostly lost. We do not know why the letters are written inside circles.

Bagnall, R. S. et al., Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna (2016): 106-107.<br/> Bagnall, R., Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (2011): 19.

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