8.19. Place inscription of Bassos; invocation
- Description:
- Wall of doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- Below 8.18, on another smoothed area. There are apparent traces of previous lettering which has been erased. The second line of script is far shallower, and is cut on the very edge of the smoothed area.
- Letters:
- Rough, lunate lettering, 0.03-0.05
- 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.ii.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Βάσσο v. υ Λ vac.
- 2 vac.
- 3 τῷ κυρ̣ί̣ῳ̣̣
- 1ΒΑΣΣΟ ΥΛ
- 2
- 3ΤΩΚΥ···̣
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Βάσσο
<space
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
υ
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
λ
</orig>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
τῷ
κυ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρίῳ
</unclear>
̣
</ab>
Translation:
Of Bassos. ...? to the Lord.
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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