8.53. Seat inscriptions: Theatre, Block A
- Description:
- Theatre, seats
- Text:
- Row 2.iii: On one seat, at right angles to edge. Row 5.ii, on one seat. Row 7: on one seat. Row 9.ii: on one seat. Row 24.i on edge of seat at west end;. Row 26: on one seat; the text probably once continued on the next;
- Letters:
- Row 2.iii: Careful letters, ave. 0.05, with seriphs; o over T, and apostrophe after D as abbreviations. Row 5.ii: very thin and worn, 0.05 - 0.07. Row 7: 0.04. Row 9.ii: l Large letters , 0.09- 0.10. Row 24.i: 0.015-0.025. Row 26:: 0.06.Designs: 2.i: 0.42. 2.ii: c. 0.22. 3: 0.425 x 0.17. 5.i: 0.41 x 0.18. 6: 0.36 x 0.17. 9.i: 0.42 x 0.22
- Date:
- Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: seats, block A, Row
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 46.A.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
Apparatus
5.ii: For line 1, Professor Herrmann suggests π]υγίξι compare below, 8.62.9.
Translation:
Row 2, iii: Place of (the) mand(ator?).
Row 24: Place of Aeneas
Row 26: Place [ ? of -
Commentary:
See bibliography.
Photographs:
- Row 2.i, ii and iii (1975)
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- Row 2.iii (1975)
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- Row 5.i (1975)
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- Row 5.ii (1975)
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- Row 7 (1975)
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- Row 8 (1975)
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- Row24 (1988)
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- Row 26 (1975)
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