8.96. Graffiti
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.
- Text:
- On the east face; the column is broken away at the top of the text.
- Letters:
- clearly but roughly cut, 0.035-0.04
- Date:
- Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage, twelfth column from south
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.12.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0 [·· ? ··]
- 1 [··] ΗΣ [·· c. 4 ··]
- 2 [·] ΕΟ [··]
- 2a [·· ? ··] vac. [·· ? ··]
- 0[ - - - ]
- 1[··]ΗΣ[····]
- 2[·]ΕΟ[··]
- 2a[ - - - ] [ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="0"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ησ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="4"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
εο
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
No translation possible.
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)
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- East face (1976)
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