2.8. Seat inscriptions, Odeon block E

Description:
Odeon, seats.
Text:
Inscribed on the seats: Row 5: on one seat; Row 7: on two seats. Row 8: on the front rim of one seat.
Letters:
Row 1: 0.055. Row 5: very worn, square, 0.035-0.045; ΟΥ in ligature. Row 7: All the letters after ΤΟ have been erased, but remain legible, 0.04-0.07; well cut; lunate; apostrophe for abbreviation. Row 8: 0.05-0.07.
Date:
Second-sixth century A.D. (context).
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: seats, block E.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Row 5: Cited, Circus Factions, 315; published, ALA 180.iv. Row 7: Cited, Circus Factions, 315; published,ALA 180.v. All published by Roueché, PPA 47.2.E.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1
(a cross)
5
1 [··] Βενέτο̣υ̣
7
1 τό-
2 [[πός]] [[Βενέ(των)]]
8
i
ii
9
1 cross ΣΦ
1
(a cross)
5
1[··]ΒΕΝΕΤ··
7
1ΤΟ
2 [[ΠΟΣ]] [[ΒΕΝΕ]]
8
i
ii
9
1 cross ΣΦ
<div type="textpart_section" n="1" >
<note>
a cross
</note>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="5" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="left" />
Βενέτ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ου
</unclear>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="7" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
τό
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
<del>
πός
</del>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
Βενέ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
των
</supplied>
</expan>
</del>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="8" >
<div type="textpart_column" n="i" >
<ab>
<orig n="unresolved" >
αν
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="ii" >
<ab>
<orig n="unresolved" >
ο
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="9" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="cross" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ΣΦ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

Row 5: The traces before the Β may be without significance.

Translation:

Row 5: [ .?.] of (the) Blue (faction).

Row 7: Place of Blues

Commentary:

See Performers and Partisans, 47.

Photographs:

Row 5 (1972)
 Row 5 (1972)

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