Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.81. Seat inscriptions: Theatre, loose block

Description: Theatre seat, broken in two halves (w: total c. 130 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.69).

Text: Inscribed, i on the seat; ii cut over iii on the riser.

Letters: i in a large sprawling hand, 0.18; ii, regular formal lettering, 0.03, cut over iii (which is lunate). .

Date: Second to sixth centuries CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, reused in the South Portico: SE.Ag I.83

Original location: Theatre: cavea

Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

i
Μ
ii
( vac. ) Καρμινίας Κλαυδ[ι]ανῆς ( vac. )
iii
ε

Diplomatic

i
Μ
ii
      ΚΑΡΜΙΝΙΑΣΚΛΑΥΔ[.]ΑΝΗΣ      
iii
Ε

Apparatus

iii: Omitted Roueché, PPA, IAph2007

Translation

i. No translation possible. ii: (Seat of) Carminia Claudiana. iii: (i.e. Number) 5

Bibliography

Recorded: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, PPA 46.X.18 , whence AE 1994.1701 (ii), PHI PPAphr 46.X, 18.i, PPAphr 46.X, 18.ii; IAph2007 8.81.

Images

Fig. 1. ii: Left fragment (Mossman Roueché, 1989)

Fig. 2. ii and iii: Right fragment (Mossman Roueché, 1989)