<rs type="textType">Seat inscriptions</rs>: Stadium Block 15

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 M: on four seats at west end. Row U.i: 0.48 x 0.20. Row U.ii 0.41 x 0.16. Row V: on two seats at west end; design 0.20 x 0.19. Row X: along the edge, which is broken, of two seats at east end.

Letters

Row M: 0.12-0.18; lunate sigma. Row V: Letters 0.07-0.10; square sigma, cursive omega. Row X: shallow, 0.10-0.12.

Date

Second-fifth century A.D. (context)

Edition
Design, type 3Rows1.
μοστρατου
Design type R6, but with 6 holes in each row.
Design, type H4, within an outline.
Design, type S.3. Β Ι Ο Ι Λ σιέων
Ἀπολλωνίου ἀγαλματογλυφου
Apparatus

Row M: The mu, if correctly read, is cursive. Row V: Β̣ could be Ρ.

Translation

Row X: (Place of) Apollonios, sculptor.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Stadium: seats, block 15. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

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

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Row X published by K. T. Erim and J. M. Reynolds,'Sculptors' , no. 20, whence SEG 40, 1990.943; all published by Roueché, PPA 45.7.

Photographs

Row M (1975)
Row V (1977)
Row V, right end, and Row U.i (part) (1975)
Row X, left end (1977)
Row X, right end (1975)