8.16. ?Place inscription of Autolykos
- Description:
- Wall of doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- at H. 0.10 above lintel.
- Letters:
- Carefully cut, but irregular, square letters; l.1, 0.055-0.06; l.2, 0.055-0.08. The second line slopes upwards.
- Date:
- First to sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: skene frons, third stage room from north, on the outer, south, face of the block above the door.: this room opens onto the north side of the central stage corridor.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 1.3.ii.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Αὐτολύκου διασκεύη ἄμαχα
- 2 Νεμεακοῦ ἄμαχα
- 1ΑΥΤΟΛΥΚΟΥΔΙΑΣΚΕΥΗΑΜΑΧΑ
- 2ΝΕΜΕΑΚΟΥΑΜΑΧΑ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Αὐτολύκου
διασκεύη
ἄμαχα
<lb
n="2"
/>
Νεμεακοῦ
ἄμαχα
</ab>
Translation:
Unbeatable equipment of Autolykos, of ? the Nemean (victor), unbeatable.
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:
- View (1983)
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- Face (1983)
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- Face (1972)
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