8.92. Graffiti
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.
- Text:
- a: There are some traces of lettering on the east face. b: On the south face, a hole for a beam has been cut, which may have eliminated part of the following inscription.
- Letters:
- b: irregular and cursive, 0.02
- Date:
- Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage, seventh column from south.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.7.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 a: (Nothing legible)
- 2 b:
- 3 (Lightly erased)
- 4 (Lightly erased)
- 5 ΓΑΙΑ̣ [·] ΕΥΝ̣
- 6 (deeply erased)
- 7 (deeply erased)
- 8 5 (deeply erased) ΣΤΡΟ
- 9 ΟΠ̣Ω
- 1A:(Nothing legible)
- 2B:
- 3(Lightly erased)
- 4(Lightly erased)
- 5ΓΑΙ·[·]ΕΥ·
- 6(deeply erased)
- 7(deeply erased)
- 85(deeply erased)ΣΤΡΟ
- 9Ο·Ω
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
a:
<note>
Nothing legible
</note>
<lb
n="2"
/>
b:
<lb
n="3"
/>
<note>
Lightly erased
</note>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<note>
Lightly erased
</note>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
γαι
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
α
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ευ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ν
</unclear>
<lb
n="6"
/>
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<lb
n="8"
/>
5
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
στρο
</orig>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ο
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
π
</unclear>
ω
</orig>
- Translation:
- not usefully translatable.
Commentary:
One of a series of inscriptions on the columns supporting the architrave on the stage (which carries 8.1): 8.89, 8.98, 8.90, 8.91, 8.92, 8.93, 8.94, 8.95, 8.96, 8.97 . All the inscriptions are on the stage side of the columns, and were presumably only visible to those using the stage. See Roueché, Performers and Partisans, Chapter III.
Photographs:
- View of stage columns (1985)
-
- a, east face (1976)
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- b, south face (1976)
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