8.69. Seat inscriptions: Theatre, loose block
- Description:
- Theatre seat.
- Text:
- Inscribed along front rim of seat.
- Letters:
- 0.05-0.07; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
- Second-sixth centuries A.D. (context).
- Findspot:
- Theatre: seat, found loose
- Original Location:
- In Theatre cavea
- Last recorded location:
- in the storage field east of the Theatre.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 46.X.6.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 [Ἀπ] | vac. φία κ(αὶ) Φλ(άβιος) Ἕρμιπ̣[πος]
- 1[··] ΦΙΑΚΦΛΕΡΜΙ·[···]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀπ
</supplied>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
φία
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αὶ
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
άβιος
</supplied>
Ἕρμι
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
π
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</ab>
πος
</supplied>
Translation:
[?Ap]phia and Flavius Hermip[?pus]
Commentary:
The first name is well attested at Aphrodisias; Hermippus is not otherwise attested, but it is not possible to read the much more common Hermias.
See further Performers and Partisans, 46.
Photographs:
- Face (1976)
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