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

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 6.i: On one block at west end of row. Row 7: on one riser. Row 9.i: on one block, at right angles to front edge. Row 21.i: across row.

Letters

Graffito. Row 6.i: 0.05 - 0.015 (at end). Row 7: 0.05. Row 9.i, 0.02 - 0.04. Row 21.i: 0.17 - 0.18, Ο 0.12. Row 22.i: monogram 0.29.

Date

Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)

Edition

There is an incomplete drawing of a face.

Scattered letters

κεατυιιων

Scattered letters

νηαι

Ἐγὼ πυγίστης εἶμιScattered letters

Scattered letters

Design, type C2

Scattered letters

τονιυ

Scattered letters

Box monogram. Based on Κ and Ε, with Λ and perhaps Τ.

Scattered letters

Design, type C2

Scattered letters

Translation

Row 9.i: I am a bugger.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Theatre: seats, block K Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published, by Roueché, PPA 46.K.

Photographs

Row 6 (1976)

Row 9 (1972)