8.17. ?Place inscription of Kapuras and Philologos
- Description:
- Wall of doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- On face of block.
- Letters:
- All the letters are square; those of l.1, 0.07-0.075, are carefully cut, with circular stops; ll. 2, 0.05-0.07, and 3, 0.04, are less carefully cut, and appear to be a later addition, squeezed in. Line 1 is in script very similar to 3.ii.
- Date:
- First to sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre, skene frons: fourth stage room from north. doorway, on the outer, north, face of the block above the door: this room opens onto the south 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 1.4.i.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Καπυρᾶ stop διασκεύη stop ἄμαχα
- 2 καὶ Φιλολόγου Ὀλυμπιονεί -
- 3 κου
- 1ΚΑΠΥΡΑ stop ΔΙΑΣΚΕΥΗ stop ΑΜΑΧΑ
- 2ΚΑΙΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΟΥΟΛΥΜΠΙΟΝΕΙ
- 3ΚΟΥ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Καπυρᾶ
<g
type="stop"
/>
διασκεύη
<g
type="stop"
/>
ἄμαχα
<lb
n="2"
/>
καὶ
Φιλολόγου
Ὀλυμπιονεί
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
κου
</ab>
Translation:
Unbeatable equipment of Kapyras and of Philologos, Olympic victor.
.
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:
- Face (1972)
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