<rs type="textType">Seat inscriptions</rs>: Theatre, Block A

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Theatre, seats

Description of Text

Row 2.iii: On one seat, at right angles to edge. Row 5.ii, on one seat. Row 7: on one seat. Row 9.ii: on one seat. Row 24.i on edge of seat at west end;. Row 26: on one seat; the text probably once continued on the next;

Letters

Row 2.iii: Careful letters, ave. 0.05, with seriphs; o over T, and apostrophe after D as abbreviations. Row 5.ii: very thin and worn, 0.05 - 0.07. Row 7: 0.04. Row 9.ii: l Large letters , 0.09- 0.10. Row 24.i: 0.015-0.025. Row 26:: 0.06.

Designs: 2.i: 0.42. 2.ii: 0.22. 3: 0.425 x 0.17. 5.i: 0.41 x 0.18. 6: 0.36 x 0.17. 9.i: 0.42 x 0.22

Date

Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)

Edition
Letters
Design, type C1
Two cross designs
τόπος μανδάτορος
Design, type R1, with central line omitted
Design, type R6
5-6 letters erasedΥΓ ΙΖΙ ΟΠΥοΛ ΛΤΝΙΡΟΥ ΝΙΑ ΤΟΥΝΙ ΙΕΑΟσ
Design, type R6
Ι ΓΙΖ Λ
on one seat there is a figure, holding a ?stick, with a forked end, in his right hand, and a shorter object in his left
Design, type R6
Ω Ε κατέχεται ?
Design, type C2
Design, type C2
Design
Design
Αἰνείου τόπος
Scattered letters
τόπος
Apparatus

5.ii: For line 1, Professor Herrmann suggests π]υγίξι compare below, 8.62.9.

Translation

Row 2, iii: Place of (the) mand(ator?).

Row 24: Place of Aeneas

Row 26: Place [ ? of -

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Theatre: seats, block A, Row Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 46.A.

Photographs

Row 2.i, ii and iii (1975)
Row 2.iii (1975)
Row 5.i (1975)
Row 5.ii (1975)
Row 7 (1975)
Row 8 (1975)
Row24 (1988)
Row 26 (1975)