Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.18. Place inscriptions, Odeon block D

Description: Seat.

Text: Row 6: Inscribed on one seat, whose surface has subsequently been chipped, as if for plastering.

Letters: line 1, 0.002-0.045; line 2, 0.02-0.035; irregular, square.

Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE (context, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, cavea: seats, Block D.

Original location: Bouleuterion/Odeon, cavea

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

6
τόποϲ Βενέτων
Ἑβρέ̣ων τῶν π̣α̣λεῶν

Diplomatic

6
ΤΟΠΟϹΒΕΝΕΤΩΝ
ΕΒΡ.ΩΝΤΩΝ..ΛΕΩΝ

Apparatus

The alignment here, and a slight difference in the design of the two betas, may suggest that the word Βενέτων was cut by a different hand - whether earlier or later is uncertain; but this cannot be regarded as proven, given the roughness of the whole.

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Row 6: Place of Blues, of the elder Jews.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Cameron, 1976, 79, 135 (mention); Reynolds and Tannenbaum, 1987 1a ; Roueché, ALA 180.iii ; Roueché, PPA 47.2.D , whence PHI PPAphr 47.2.D, IAph2007 2.18; Reynolds, 2008b 4,D.vi, whence SEG 58.1160 (mention)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)


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