ISic001677: Theatre seat inscription
- ID
- ISic001677
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- seat inscription
- Object type
- seat
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photographs
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- seat
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The same two letters are repeated in large form on the upper surface of the seat, and in monogrammatic form on the front vertical face of the same slab
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Ietas
- Provenance found
- Identified on a preserved seat of the theatre during the excavations of 1986
- Map
Current location
- Place
- San Cipirello, Italy
- Repository
- Area archeologica del Monte Iato ,
- Autopsy
- in situ
- Map
Date
The monumental phase of the theatre, including the seats, is probably to be dated around 200 BCE (M. Mohr) (220 BC – 180 BC)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
In detailed study of the theatre in 1986 this was the only inscription identified on the preserved seats. It is a reasonable assumption that since the same pair of letters is repeated, they have the same reference. The text on the vertical face of the seat (text B) is presented in the form of a monogram, with alpha much smaller and placed within the pi. The implication of the larger letters set out on the horizontal surface (text A) is that the small alpha should be read first in resolving such a monogrammatic presentation.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/20/2021