10.33. Seat inscriptions: Stadium Block 23
- Description:
- Stadium seats.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the seats. Row A: on one seat. Row N: at the west end.
- Letters:
- Row A: 0.15. Row N: 0.06 - 0.15, thin, lunate.
- Date:
- Second to sixth centuries A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Stadium: seats, block 24.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 45.38 and 45.39.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition: Roueché (2007). This edition Roueché (2007).
- A
- 1 vac. ΚΛ̣Ι vac.
- G
- (Traces of letters)
- N
- 1 vac. | τό̣π|ος vac. | αὐραρί|ων vac. | steps
- A
- 1 Κ·Ι
- G
- (Traces of letters)
- N
- 1 Τ·ΠΟΣ ΑΥΡΑΡΙΩΝ steps
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="A"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
κ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
ι
</orig>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
</ab>
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="G"
>
<note>
</div>
Traces of letters
</note>
<div
type="textpart_section"
n="N"
>
<ab>
</div>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
τ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ό
</unclear>
π
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
ος
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
αὐραρί
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
ων
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
<g
type="steps"
/>
</ab>
Apparatus
Row A: λ̣ might be χ.̣
Translation:
Row N: Place of gold-workers
Commentary:
See Performers and Partisans, 45; note that the block was wrongly described as two blocks.
For aurarii, see 10.21, 10.33, and Roueché, ‘Aurarii in the auditorium’, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105 (1995), 37-50; J.-M. Carrié, 'Les métiers de labanque entre public et privé (IV-VIIe siècle)', Atti Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana XII Convegno (1998), 65-93; C. Zuckerman, 'Le cirque, l'argent et le peuple', REB 58 (2000) 69-96.
Photographs:
- Row A (1977)
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- Row P (1977)
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- Row A (1977)
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- Row A (1977)
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