8.21. ?Place inscription of Demetrios, homerist
- Description:
- Wall of doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- i and ii on a partly smoothed face, H. 1.43 above ground. There are traces of several earlier inscriptions, which have been erased. ii. Cut above i, where it appears to have been squeezed in.
- Letters:
- i: 0.03-0.04; traces of red paint. Lines 1-2 are cut in a clear, square hand, except for the second word in l.1; if this belongs to the text - as the sense suggests - it was added, in a cursive hand. The third line was more lightly cut, and is largely erased. ii:standard forms (with one lunate epsilon), lightly cut; the serifs are similar to those in 3.ii, 4.i, 5.i and 5.iv; letters ave. 0.035.
- Date:
- First to sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: skene frons, sixth stage room from north, on the north wall of the doorway.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 1.6
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Δημητρίου ὁμηριστοῦ
- 2 διασκεύη
- 3 Α[[[·· c. 9 ··]]]Σ
- 1 Ἐγ̣ενήσθη Ἀλέξανδρος
- 1ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΟΜΗΡΙΣΤΟΥ
- 2ΔΙΑΣΚΕΥΗ
- 3Α[[[·········]]]Σ
- 1Ε·ΕΝΗΣΘΗΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Δημητρίου
ὁμηριστοῦ
<lb
n="2"
/>
διασκεύη
<lb
n="3"
/>
Α
<del>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="9"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
</del>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
</ab>
Σ
</orig>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἐ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
γ
</unclear>
ενήσθη
Ἀλέξανδρος
</ab>
Translation:
i: Equipment of Demetrios, homeristes
ii. ?He became Alexandros.
Commentary:
One of the group of inscriptions, apparently by performers, at the doorways of the rooms on the stage front: 8.8, 8.9, 8.104, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22. See Roueché, PPA, pp. 15-25..
Photographs:
- Left end (1972)
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- Left end (1976)
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- Right end (1972)
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