Description:
White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.
Text:
a: on the east face, b: cut into the fluting on the west. c, on the south face.
Letters:
c: lightly cut letters, 0.02-0.03
Date:
Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Theatre stage, portico across stage, eleventh column from south.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, PPA 6.11.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
(There are traces of letters)
(a cross carefully cut)
1 Ἡλ̣ιώ̣̣δο̣[ρ](?ος)
(There are traces of letters)
(a cross carefully cut)
1Η·Ι·̣Δ·[·]
<note>
There are traces of letters
</note>
<note>
a cross carefully cut
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
ι
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
̣δ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρ
</supplied>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" cert="low" >
ος
</supplied>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

Heliodoros or (place of) Heliodoros

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)
 View of stage columns (1985)
a, east face (1976)
 a, east face (1976)
b, south face (1976)
 b, south face (1976)

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