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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1920366, member: 39&quot;]My Latin is (or has become <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) rudimentary, but yes, &quot;sedis spectaculi&quot; - seat/place of the spectacle - refers to the (amphi)theater that Athalaric had built in Pavia. That inscription is pretty much the only remnant of the theater ...</p><p><br /></p><p>So my guess is that the text praises Athalaric as the one who had the place built. What I find interesting, by the way, is that the mason apparently made, or almost made, a spelling error - <a href="http://www.hist-hh.uni-bamberg.de/hilfswiss/epigrdoku.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hist-hh.uni-bamberg.de/hilfswiss/epigrdoku.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a> (in German) says that the last word should be &quot;precepit&quot;, not &quot;precepet&quot;. The writer started incising an E, then noticed the mistake, so that the character looks like a rectangular C. But the two photos look quite different in that regard ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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