<rs type="textType">Seat inscriptions</rs>: Stadium Block 10

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 A: on rim of seat above entrance to arena. Row D: at west end. Row H: along entire row. Row J: at west end. Row L: at west end. Row M: from west end. Row R: starting on fourth seat from west end.

Letters

Row A: cursive, 0.05. Row D: ave. 0.08; lunate sigma. Row H: 0.05-0.06. Row J: ave. 0.06. Row L: ave. 0.07. Row M: 0.06-0.10; lunate sigma. Row R: neat, with seriphs; 0.05-0.07.

Date

Second-sixth century A.D. (context)

Edition

απο

υ βυρ σέων συ ντεχνία

ιυτεων five seats μειλ τόπος

κυιεωρι

Αἰλιανοῦ

γ Εὐαράστου τόπος νηςfour seats to end

τόπος Ἀντιγόνου

Apparatus

Row M: There may have been letters either side of the first upsilon.

Translation

Row D: [?Association of] tanners.

Row L: (Place of) Aelianos.

Row M: ?Place of Euarastos. ...

Row R: Place of Antigonos.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Stadium: seats, block 10. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

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

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 45.12.

Photographs

Row A (1975)

Row D (1983)

Row H (1977)

Row J (1977)

Row M (1988)

Row R (1977)