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

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Theatre, seats

Description of Text

On surface of seats. Row 2: two texts on one seat; (a) at right angles to the edge, (b) parallel to edge. Row 5: i and south end, then a blank seat, then ii.Row 8: at front edge of seat at east end, which has a damaged surface. The last two lines are written at right angles to the rest, at the left; but they seem to be of the same hand, and to belong. Row 9: on 2 separate seats, i to the east. Row 10: On the seat at the west end. Row 11: on one seat. Row 15: on seats at east end. Row 24.i: on seats at west end. Row 26.i: on a seat which is broken away above.

Letters

Row 2: (a) ave. 0.45 (phi 0.13); (b) 0.025. Row 8: cursive, 0.035 - 0.04; there are two dots, ?for abbreviation, over Χ in l.3. Row 9.i: deeply cut, 0.11 high. 9.ii: shallower, 0.08 high. Row 11: shallowly cut. Row 15: letters ave. 0.12, cursive delta.Row 24.i: 0.26. Row 26.i: 0.03 (ο) - 0.05 (Χ).

Designs; Row 5.i: 0.29; Row 5.ii: 0.325.

Date

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

Edition
Εὐχὴ Στε φανᾶ
Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Design, type C1
Design type C2
ζω κοτν χπ επll. 5 and 6 at right angles to the restτυευ
box-monogram:Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν Πρασίνων
box-monogram: Ἡ τύχη τῶν Πρασίνων
A drawing, at right angles to the edge, of the head and shoulders, of a figure with a complex hairdo, or headdress, turning slightly to the right.
Box-monogram: Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν Πρασίνων
υκεδ κχ ω
On one seat there is a design, ?a phallusScattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Design, type S3.
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
κατέχεται
Scattered letters
οι Υ Α ΗΧΗ βοήθι το σ δούλο σου Γεώργιο
Scattered letters
Translation

Row 2 (a) Prayer of Stephanas (b) The fortune triumphs of the [...

Row 8: It is hard to make any sense of this text, or even to be sure in what order to read the letters; but it seems possible that there are the initial letters of several names : Ζω(τικος), Τυ(χικος), Ἐπ(?), Εὐ(?).

Row 9.i. (The fortune of the Greens triumphs !)

Row 9.ii. (The fortune of the Greens)

Row 11: (The fortune of the Greens triumphs)

Row 24: Reserved

Row 26.i: - help your servant George.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Theatre: seats, block E. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Row 2, published by Roueché, ALA 137. iii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 775. Row 26.i: Roueché, ALA 137. iv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 776. All published by Roueché, PPA 46.E.

Photographs

Row 2 (1975)
Row 2, detail (1972)
Row 8 (1977)
Row 9.i (1972)
Row 9.ii (1975)
Row 10 (1972)
Row 11 (1977)
Row 15 (1977)
Row 15 (1977)
Row 16 (1975)
Row 26.i (1976)