Description:
Block (H. 0.32 x W. 0.725 x D. 0.11) apparently formed by cutting down a theatre seat.
Text:
On the surface, which has been hacked, presumably in preparation for the subsequent plastering.
Letters:
Clear, crude lettering, l.1, 0.09, l.2 0.03 - 0.06.
Date:
Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
Findspot:
Theatre Baths: reused in a late partition wall in the complex to the east.
Original Location:
In Theatre cavea
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, PPA 46.X.16.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 κατέχεται
2 μὴ μάχῃ Η
1ΚΑΤΕΧΕΤΑΙ
2ΜΗΜΑΧΗΗ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
κατέχεται
<lb n="2" />
μὴ
μάχῃ
<orig n="unresolved" >
η
</orig>
</ab>

Translation:

Reserved. ?Don't quarrel

Commentary:

See Performers and Partisans, 46.

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)

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