8.70. Seat inscriptions: Theatre, loose block
- Description:
- Theatre seat with a back, broken away above, with a deliberate hole created either for awning support, or for subsequent re-use; it bears traces of cement from later use.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the seat.
- Letters:
- letters 0.025 - 0.05.
- Date:
- Second to 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.7.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Η
- 2 νικᾷ vac. ἡ τύχ[η]
- 3 τῆς vac. hole Λ̣
- 1Η
- 2ΝΙΚΑ ΗΤΥΧ[·]
- 3ΤΗΣ hole ·
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
η
</orig>
<lb
n="2"
/>
νικᾷ
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ἡ
τύχ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
η
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
τῆς
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<g
type="hole"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
λ
</unclear>
Apparatus
Perhaps the final word was [πό]λ(εως).
Translation:
The fortune of the [?city] triumphs!
Commentary:
See Performers and Partisans, 46.
Photographs:
- Face (1976)
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