8.78. Seat inscriptions: Theatre, loose block
- Description:
- Theatre seat.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surface, which is weathered away to right.
- Letters:
- 0.02-0.025.
- Date:
- Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context).
- Findspot:
- Acropolis, reused.
- Original Location:
- In Theatre cavea
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, ALA 138 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 777 and PPA 46.X.15.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Νικᾷ ἡ̣ τύχ̣[η]
- 2 Κύριε μ̣ν̣[?ήσθητι] -
- 3 ΜΑΥ̣[·· ? ··]
- 1ΝΙΚΑ·ΤΥ·[·]
- 2ΚΥΡΙΕ··[······]
- 3ΜΑ·[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Νικᾷ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἡ
</unclear>
τύ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
χ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
η
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
Κύριε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
μν
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
ήσθητι
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
μα
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
υ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Apparatus
l. 3, Θ or Γ.
Translation:
The fortune triumphs [·· ? ··] Lord re[[member ·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See Performers and Partisans, 46.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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