Row 3: on one seat; Row 4.i: On one seat, Row 6.i: On one seat. Row 6.ii: on second seat to west of 6.i. Row 8.i: On one seat, which is broken to left.Row 8.i: On one seat, which is broken to left. Row 8.ii: On seat to west of 8.1, broken at right. Row 8.iii: a: On the 2 seats west of 8.ii. a and b: on first seat. c. On second seat; the upper left corner is lost. Row 9.i. On one seat, crudely but clearly cut. Row 9.ii. On seat to west of 9.i. Row 9.iii. On seat to west of 9.ii. Row 19.i: On seat at east end. Row 19.ii: On seat at west end, broken at both sides. Row 20.i: On seats at south end. Row 20.ii: on seat at north end. Row 21.i: on risers. Row 22.i: on seat faces. Row 22.ii: On risers. Row 26.ii: On risers
Letters
Row 6.i: 0.035. Row 6.ii: broad and shallow, 0.06, cross 0.36. Row 8.i: lightly cut letters, lunate, 0.04. Row 8.ii: clearly cut, 0.04-0.05. Row 8.iii: a. 0.08, clearly cut, b. 0.13, c. clearly cut, 0.12. Row 9.i: design c.0.30., letters 0.04-0.07. Row 9.ii clearly cut, square letters, 0.035 - 0.06. Row 9.iii: monogram, 0.08. Row 9.iii. On seat to west of 9.ii. Row 19.i: 0.18-0.19. Row 19.ii: letters 0.06 - 0.09. Row 20.ii: Large, with broad flat trenches, 0.16. Row 21.i: first pair, 0.03 - 0.05; second pair, 0.07. Row 22.i: l0.06 - 0.13. Row 22.ii: 0.05 and 0.07. Row 23.i: 0.06 - 0.15. Row 26.ii: 0.025 (epsilon), 0.04.
Date
Second-sixth century A.D. (context).
Edition
On one seat there is a rough and incomplete drawing of a figure with what seems to be a net; presumably a retiarius.
On one seat there is a graffito figure, apparently holding a spear and a shield, probably another gladiator.
Design, a cross.
ΛΙΤThere are other scattered letters.
A sketch of a head ?with a hat, and shoulders.
τόπος
Ἀγάθωπος
Ἑπταμηνίου
a: Based on E; other letters Ο, Κ, Α and Λ or Δ.b: Based on Κ; other letters Ο, Υ, Ρ.
c: Based on Ε; other letters Ο, Δ or Α.
A head and shoulders, with a circular ?shield in front of the torso;. Inscribed above the shield. Cut later, above the left shoulder, is a rough design ?of a figure, with the letters ΘΕ above, ?ΟΘbelow. Θρᾷξ
ἈθανασίουΕὐσεβίου
Box monogram.
Based on Ε; other letters Τ, Ο, Θ, ?Β or Ρ, perhaps ?Α.
Perhaps·τόποςΕὐσεβίου.
Scattered letters
Design, scattered letters
Design, type SSS1, one cross
Scattered letters
Design, type SSS1
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
κατέχεταιὑπὸThere are other scattered letters on the following seats
ΑΠΟΨΟΥ κατέχεταιSuperimposed over the right end are ?larger letters, perhaps EI.
two seatsκτατέχεται
τόπος
Scattered letters
ζωαι
Scattered letters
three seatsὑπὸκαπλthree seatsυκτ
μευ
Scattered letters
κδιρο ε Θ 2 seatsνορουκατέχεται
Scattered letters
κατέχεταιὑπὸΤ
Scattered letters
Τhere are faces on two seats
εευακ
Τhere is a small figure of ?a man
Translation
Row 6.ii: Place ?(of the cross).
Row 8.i: [?Place] of Agathops.
Row 8.ii: (Place) of Heptamenius
Row 8.iii.b: ? Kour [. . . ]
Row 9.i: Thracian (gladiator).
Row 9.ii: (Place) of Athanasius. (Place) of Eusebius.
Row 9.iii: ?Place of ?Eusebius.
Row 19.i: Reserved.
Row 19.ii: Reserved.
Row 20.i: Reserved.
Row 20.ii: Place
Commentary
6.ii: If this text is complete, the translation must be 'place of the cross'; but it may have been intended to reserve a place for an individual whose name was never cut, accompanied by a cross (as in 8.59.4, 8.59.12).
See bibliography.
Locations
Theatre: seats, block A, RowFindspotFindspot
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Row 6.ii: Published Roueché, ALA 181. v, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias702, Row 9.ii and iii, Roueché, ALA 181. vi, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias674. All published Roueché, PPA 46.H
Photographs
Row 3 (1988)Row 4.i (1988)Row 6.ii (1976)Row 6.iii (1976)Row 8.i (1976)Row 8.ii and iii.a (1976)Row 8.iii b and c (1976)Row 9.i (1972)Row 9.ii (1972)Row 9.iii (1972)Rows 19.ii and 20.ii (1976)Row 23 (1988)Row 25 (1977)Row 26.ii (1988)