<rs type="textType">Seat inscriptions</rs>: Stadium Block 19

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Stadium seats.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the seats. Row J: on a seat in the middle of the row. Row K: in the middle of the row. Row P.i: starting at west end. Row P.ii: diameter 0.46). Row T: 0.24 x 0.15, very rough. Row U: 0.55 (incomplete) x 0.53. Row V.i: starting on second seat from west end. Row V.ii: on one seat, at right angles to front edge. Row V.iii: on one seat, at east end; design, 0.17 x 0.15. Row V.iv: 0.55 (incomplete) x 0.46. Row V.v: unfinished, 0.53 (incomplete) x 0.60. Row X: 0.21 x 0.15.

Letters

ave. 0.08, phi 0.18; ?diacritical dots on the last I of last word.

Row J: 0.08. Row K: 0.08- 0.15; different hands in l.1-2, and l.3. Row V.i:: ave. 0.08, phi 0.18; ?diacritical dots on the last Ι of last word. Row V.ii: rough and shallow, ave. 0.02. iii: 0.06-0.08. Row V.iii: 0.06-0.08.

Date

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

Edition
Design, type 3Rows1
Design, type 3Rows1
ΝΤ
ΙΙΙΙΒενέτων Αὐρ λ λο ι ιενιων
Design, type C2.
τόπος
Design, type C.2
Design, type H.4
Design, 3Rows1
τόπος Ἀνδρονικοῦ τοῦ καὶ Φοιβερίου
Νικᾷ τύ χη ι
τόπος
Design, type 3Rows4, divided by central circle with a central dot.
Design, type 3Rows1.
Design, type S.3.
Apparatus

Row P: The third letter may be a monogram, serving as an abbreviation - either of the last letters of topos, or of the following word.

Translation

Row K: (Place of) Blues. (Place of) Aurelius or of the Aurelii [...] nii.

Row P: Place of [ -

Row V.i: Place of Andronikos, also called Phoeberios

Row V.ii: (The) fortune wins

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Stadium: seats, block 19. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition: Roueché (2007)..

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Row K published by Roueché, ALA 179, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 692 ; all Roueché, PPA 45.3.

Photographs

Row K (1975)
Row P.i, left end (1977)
Row V.i, left end (1975)
Row V.i, right end (1975)
Row V.ii (1975)
Row V.iii (1975)
Row V.iv (1975)