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

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: on one block.Row 3.i: On one block. Row 3.iii: On risers. Row 4.i: On one block. Row 4.ii: On another seat. Row 8: On one block. Row 13: on one block. Row 23.i: on one block, broken to left, at the north end of row. Row 26: On one block, along edge

Letters

Row 2: 0.05 - 0.07. Row 3.iii: 0.03, and 0.06. Row 4.ii: Drawing, height 0.39. Row 8: 0.03 - 0.09 (the final Θ of l.4). Row 13: l. 1, 0.03, l. 2, 0.04 - 0.05, faint. Row 23.i: ave. 0.10. Row 23.ii: monogram, 0.33. Row 26: ave. 0.05.

Date

Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)

Edition
Ἡλιοδώρου
A drawing of a standing figure, dressed in a loin-cloth; his arms, which are raised, appear to be clothed in ?straps. ?A wrestler.
ζ αλ
A sketch of a phallus, and an unfinished sketch of ?a face with long hair on either side.
Two busts, facing outwards, each with radiate headdresses.
A head and shoulders clearly cut with a fine tool; the hair-cut is short, and looks masculine, but what appear to be breasts are marked by two circles. τοῦ κὲ νικᾷ ἡ τύχη Κολοτρονος Θεοδότου προταυ ραρίου
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
τόπο τῶν μακελλίτωνsic Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν Βενέτων
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
Scattered letters
μου φου
Among several scattered letters, a monogram, 0.33, based on Κ and Ε, with perhaps Τ and Ι.
μνίου ΛΥ
Scattered letters
Translation

Row 2: (Place of) Heliodoros.

Row 8.i: The fortune triumphs of Theodotos, first goldsmith, also (called) Kolotron.

Row 13: Place of the butchers. The fortune of the Blues triumphs!

Row 26.i: [(Place of) ?Poly]mnios ?Ly[-

Commentary

See bibliography.

For aurarii, see 10.21, and Roueché, ‘Aurarii in the auditorium’, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105 (1995), 37-50; discussing this text in particular, J.-M. Carrié, 'Les métiers de labanque entre public et privé (IV-VIIe siècle)', Atti Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana XII Convegno (1998), 65-93; C. Zuckerman, 'Le cirque, l'argent et le peuple', REB 58 (2000) 69-96.

Locations

Theatre: seats, block J Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Row 13, Line 2 cited, Cameron, Porphyrius 276 (part); Roueché, ALA 181. vii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 698. All published by Roueché, PPA 46.J.

Photographs

Row 2 (1976)
Row 3.i (1988)
Row 4.i (1976)
Row 4.ii (1988)
Row 8.i (1972)
Row 13 (1976)
Row 23.i (1976)
Row 26.i (1976)