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A.49. Seat inscriptions

Description: Seats in the Theatre.
Text: Inscribed on the risers. Given the rough cutting and the present condition of the stone, which is often badly worn and damaged, many of the readings are most unsatisfactory. In different lights it might be possible to improve them or add to the record. For the transcription given, the rows have been numbered from the orchestra upwards and the cunei from East to the west.
Letters: Many probably pre-Roman, but too rough to date with any confidence: sizes very variable.

Date: Many probably pre-Roman.

Findspot: Apollonia: Theatre; found in 1961.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

1
1
[---]ΚΟΥ[---]
4
Λα[---]
2
3
[---] Ι̣ΜΑ̣Ι̣Ι̣ΛΑΣΙΛ̣[---]
4
3
[---]νος
5
2
[---]Τ[...] ΙΣΙ̣Ι̣Η̣Ν[---]
5
ΠΕΙΣΙΩΙΝ
8
2
Μ[---]
9
2
Ο̣ ( vac. 1) Ν ( vac. 1) Μ[---]
5
[---]ΠΥΘ ( vac. 1) Ν ( vac. 1) Σ [---]
10
2
[---]ΑΣΟ ( vac. 1) Μενάνδρου [---]
11
2
Μνα[---]
13
2
[---]ΚΛ̣ [c. 4]Α
14
4
Κ[.]ΥΑ[---]
15
4
[---]ΟΛΑ[---]
b
[---]ΝΕ [---]
16
1
Ἀρ̣ο̣[---]
18
5
[---]ΑΝΑΞ[.]Σ ( vac. 1) Ν [---]
20
1
[---]ετ̣αρ̣ι̣α̣ν̣οῦ

Diplomatic

1
1
[---]ΚΟΥ[---]
4
ΛΑ[---]
2
3
[---].Μ...ΛΑΣΙ.[---]
4
3
[---]ΝΟΣ
5
2
[---]Τ[···]ΙΣ...Ν[---]
5
ΠΕΙΣΙΩΙΝ
8
2
Μ[---]
9
2
.  Ν  Μ[---]
5
[---]ΠΥΘ  Ν  Σ[---]
10
2
[---]ΑΣΟ  ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ[---]
11
2
ΜΝΑ[---]
13
2
[---]Κ.[····]Α
14
4
Κ[·]ΥΑ[---]
15
4
[---]ΟΛΑ[---]
b
[---]ΝΕ[---]
16
1
Α..[---]
18
5
[---]ΑΝΑΞ[·]Σ  Ν[---]
20
1
[---]Ε.Α....ΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Not usefully translatable

Commentary

Presumably from the name of individuals or groups to whom the seat was allotted.

Given the rough cutting and the present condition of the stone, which is often badly worn and damaged, many of the readings are most unsatisfactory. In different lights it might be possible to improve them or add to the record.

Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 58, whence SEG 27.1141.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

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