2.18. Seat inscriptions, Odeon block D

Description:
Odeon, seat.
Text:
Row 6: Inscribed on one seat, whose surface has subsequently been chipped, as if for plastering.
Letters:
l.1, 0.002-0.045; l.2, 0.02-0.035; irregular, square.
Date:
Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (context, content).
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: seats, Block D.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Cited by Alan Cameron, Circus Factions, 79, 135; published, Jews and Godfearers, Appendix, 1a; published by Roueché, ALA 180.iii, and again, PPA 47.2.D.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
6
1 τόπος Βενέτων
2 Ἑβρέ̣ων τῶν π̣α̣λεῶν
6
1ΤΟΠΟΣΒΕΝΕΤΩΝ
2ΕΒΡ·ΩΝΤΩΝ··ΛΕΩΝ
<div type="textpart_section" n="6" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
τόπος
Βενέτων
<lb n="2" />
Ἑβρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
έ
</unclear>
ων
τῶν
<unclear reason="damage" >
πα
</unclear>
λεῶν
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

The alignment here, and a slight difference in the design of the two betas, may suggest that the word Βενέτων was cut by a different hand - whether earlier or later is uncertain; but this cannot be regarded as proven, given the roughness of the whole.

Translation:

Row 6: Place of Blues, of the elder Jews.

Commentary:

See Performers and Partisans, 47.

Photographs:

Row 6 (1972)
 Row 6 (1972)

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