Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

10.4. Seat inscriptions: Stadium Block 18

Description: Stadium seats

Text: Inscribed on the seats. Row A: on a loose block lying between blocks 18 and 19. Row O: starting on seventh seat west of east end.

Letters: Row A: ave. 0.05. Row O: clear, 0.13-0.15.

Date: Second-sixth century CE; A: fifth-sixth century. (context, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stadium seats: block 18.

Original location: Stadium arena

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

A
[..]ΟΙΕ̣ΡΚ̣ Ο̣Ν Πρασίν[ων]
O
( vac. 1 line) | τό | πος | Μα | σταυρ̣ε̣ | [ιτῶν?]

Diplomatic

A
[··]ΟΙ.Ρ..ΝΠΡΑΣΙΝ[..]
O
     vacat | ΤΟ | ΠΟΣ | ΜΑ | ΣΤΑΥ.. | [....]

Apparatus

O: | Μα | σταυρ̣ο̣ | [?πολίτων] IAph2007

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Row A: [---] of (the) Greens.

Row O: Place of (the) Mastaure[itans].

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, ALA Row A, 179 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 700 ; all Roueché, PPA 45.4 , whence PHI PPAphr 45.3, V.4,A, PPAphr 45.3, V.4,O, IAph2007 10.4; see Welch, 1998 549 for numbering.

Images

Fig. 1. Row A (M. Roueché, 1975)

Fig. 2. Row O (M. Roueché, 1975)