2.6. Seat inscriptions, Odeon block B

Description:
Odeon, seat.
Text:
Inscribed on the seats: Row 5.i: across two seats. Row 8: On one seat. All others on the front rim of the seats.
Letters:
Row 5.i: well cut, 0.075-0.09, square. Row 8: irregular, 0.05 (omicron) - 0.07; lunate. All others 0.05-0.07.
Date:
Second-sixth century A.D. (context).
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: seats, block B.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Row 5.i cited, Alan Cameron, Circus Factions, 79; published by Roueché, ALA 180. i. Row 8 cited, Alan Cameron, Circus Factions, 79; published, Reynolds-Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers, Appendix, 1b; published by Roueché, ALA 180.ii. All published by Roueché, PPA 47.2.B.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché, Pitt). This edition Roueché (2007).
1
1 ΓΟ
4
i
1 ΖΗ
ii
1 ΑΡΑ̣Η
iii
1 ΖΗ
5
i
1 τόπο-
2ς νεοτέρω[ν]
ii
1 ΕΡ
iii
1 ΗΡ
iv
1 ΖΗ
v
1 ΑΔΡ
6
i
1 ΗΡΙ̣ stop ΗΡΙ
ii
1 ΑΔΡ ΑΔΡ ΑΔΡ ΑΔΡ
7
i
1 ΑΔΡ
ii
1 ΑΛΕ stop ΑΛΕ
iii
1 ΗΡΑ
8
1 τόπος Ἑ̣β̣ρ̣έων
1
1ΓΟ
4
i
1ΖΗ
ii
1ΑΡ·Η
iii
1ΖΗ
5
i
1ΤΟΠΟ
2ΣΝΕΟΤΕΡΩ[·]
ii
1ΕΡ
iii
1ΗΡ
iv
1ΖΗ
v
1ΑΔΡ
6
i
1ΗΡ· stop ΗΡΙ
ii
1ΑΔΡΑΔΡΑΔΡΑΔΡ
7
i
1ΑΔΡ
ii
1ΑΛΕ stop ΑΛΕ
iii
1ΗΡΑ
8
1ΤΟΠΟΣ···ΕΩΝ
<div type="textpart_section" n="1" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
γο
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="4" >
<div type="textpart_column" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ζη
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
η
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="iii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ζη
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="5" >
<div type="textpart_column" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
τόπο
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ς
νεοτέρω
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ερ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="iii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ηρ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="iv" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ζη
</orig>
</ab>
<ab> </ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="v" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="6" >
<div type="textpart_column" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ηρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ι
</unclear>
</orig>
<g type="stop" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ηρι
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="7" >
<div type="textpart_column" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αδρ
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αλε
</orig>
<g type="stop" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
αλε
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_column" n="iii" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ηρα
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="8" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
τόπος
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ἑβ
</unclear>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
έων
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

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Translation:

Row 5.i: Place of younger men (neoteroi)

Row 8: Place of Jews

Commentary:

See Performers and Partisans, 47.

Photographs:

View, Blocks B and A (1991)
 View, Blocks B and A (1991)
Row 4.i (1985)
 Row 4.i (1985)
Row 4.ii (1985)
 Row 4.ii (1985)
Row 4.iii (1985)
 Row 4.iii (1985)
Row 5.i (1972)
 Row 5.i (1972)
Row 5.iv (1985)
 Row 5.iv (1985)
Row 5.v (1985)
 Row 5.v (1985)
Row 6.i (1985)
 Row 6.i (1985)
Row 6.ii (1985)
 Row 6.ii (1985)
Row 6.ii (1985)
 Row 6.ii (1985)
Row 6.ii (1985)
 Row 6.ii (1985)
Row 6.ii (1985)
 Row 6.ii (1985)
Row 7.i (1985)
 Row 7.i (1985)
Row 7.ii (1985)
 Row 7.ii (1985)
Row 7.iii (1985)
 Row 7.iii (1985)
Row 8 (1972)
 Row 8 (1972)

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