10.21. Seat inscriptions: Stadium Block 37
- Description:
- Stadium seats
- Text:
- Inscribed on the seats. Row W. On one seat.
- Letters:
- No measurements.
- Date:
- Second-sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Stadium: seats, block 37.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 45.23.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition: Roueché (2007). This edition Roueché (2007).
- X
- ( Design, a circle type C7.)
- W
- 1 τόπος αὐ̣ρ(?αρίων)
- X
- ( Design, a circle type C7.)
- W
- 1ΤΟΠΟΣΑ·Ρ
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="X"
>
<note>
</div>
Design, a circle type C7.
</note>
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="W"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
τόπος
<expan>
</ab>
<abbr>
α
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὐ
</unclear>
ρ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
cert="low"
>
</expan>
αρίων
</supplied>
Translation:
Row W: Place ? of gold-workers, or of Aur(elius).
Commentary:
See Performers and Partisans, 45. For aurarii, see 10.33, 8.61, and Roueché, ‘Aurarii in the auditorium’, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105 (1995), 37-50; J.-M. Carrié, 'Les métiers de la banque entre public et privé (IV-VIIe siècle)', Atti Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana XII Convegno (1998), 65-93; C. Zuckerman, 'Le cirque, l'argent et le peuple', REB 58 (2000) 69-96.
- Photographs:
- none.
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