8.18. ?Place inscription of Neikanor
- Description:
- Wall of doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- Cut on a smoothed area, H. 1.67 above floor level.
- Letters:
- carefully cut, but irregular, 0.03-0.05; similar to 3.ii and 4.i. Square sigma in l.1, standard in l.2; traces of red paint.
- Date:
- First to sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: skene frons, fifth stage room from north, doorway, on the north wall.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 1.5.i.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Νεικάνορος
- 2 διασκεύη
- 3 ἄμαχα
- 1ΝΕΙΚΑΝΟΡΟΣ
- 2ΔΙΑΣΚΕΥΗ
- 3ΑΜΑΧΑ
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διασκεύη
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ἄμαχα
Translation:
Unbeatable equipment of Neikanor.
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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- Face (1976)
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