TY - BOOK AU - BAGNALL, Roger Shaler AU - CASAGRANDE-KIM, Roberta AU - ERSOY, Akın AU - TANRIVER, Cumhur AU - YOLAÇAN, Burak TI - Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna SN - 9780000000000 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World / NYU KW - Excavations (Archaeology)--Turkey--İzmir KW - Graffiti--Turkey--Izmir KW - Izmir (Turkey)--Antiquities N1 - New York University Press; List of Illustrations viiList of Contributors viiiPreface ixIntroductionHistory of Excavations in Smyrna (Akın Ersoy) 1Description of Building and Phases (Burak Yolaçan) 3General Characteristics of the Graffiti (Roger Bagnall) 20The Pictorial Graffiti (Roberta Casagrande-Kim) 22Dating of the Graffiti (Roger Bagnall) 36Palaeography (Roger Bagnall) 40Language (Roger Bagnall) 42Healing of Eyes (Roger Bagnall) 42Baite (Roger Bagnall) 44Christianity (Roger Bagnall) 45Civic Pride (Roger Bagnall) 47Isopsephisms of Desire (Roger Bagnall) 48Word-Play: Word Squares and Riddles (Roger Bagnall) 52The Graffiti: Descriptions, Texts, Translations, and Notes 55Bibliography 463Index of Greek Words 469Index of Subjects and Motifs of Drawings 473General Index 475Concordance of Publication Numbers with Supplementum EpigraphicumGraecum 61 477Concordance of Numbers of Bays and Piers 479 ER -