<title><rs type="textType">Seat inscriptions</rs>, Odeon block E

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Odeon, seats.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the seats: Row 5: on one seat; Row 7: on two seats. Row 8: on the front rim of one seat.

Letters

Row 1: 0.055. Row 5: very worn, square, 0.035-0.045; ΟΥ in ligature. Row 7: All the letters after ΤΟ have been erased, but remain legible, 0.04-0.07; well cut; lunate; apostrophe for abbreviation. Row 8: 0.05-0.07.

Date

Second-sixth century A.D. (context).

Edition
a cross
Βενέτου
τό πός Βενέτων
αν
ο
ΣΦ
Apparatus

Row 5: The traces before the Β may be without significance.

Translation

Row 5: [ .?.] of (the) Blue (faction).

Row 7: Place of Blues

Commentary

See Performers and Partisans, 47.

Locations

Bouleuterion/Odeon: seats, block E. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Row 5: Cited, Circus Factions, 315; published, ALA 180.iv. Row 7: Cited, Circus Factions, 315; published,ALA 180.v. All published by Roueché, PPA 47.2.E.

Photographs

Row 5 (1972)