Description:
Wall of doorway to stage room.
Text:
i and ii on a partly smoothed face, H. 1.43 above ground. There are traces of several earlier inscriptions, which have been erased. ii. Cut above i, where it appears to have been squeezed in.
Letters:
i: 0.03-0.04; traces of red paint. Lines 1-2 are cut in a clear, square hand, except for the second word in l.1; if this belongs to the text - as the sense suggests - it was added, in a cursive hand. The third line was more lightly cut, and is largely erased. ii:standard forms (with one lunate epsilon), lightly cut; the serifs are similar to those in 3.ii, 4.i, 5.i and 5.iv; letters ave. 0.035.
Date:
First to sixth century A.D. (context)
Findspot:
Theatre: skene frons, sixth stage room from north, on the north wall of the doorway.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, PPA 1.6
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 Δημητρίου ὁμηριστοῦ
2 διασκεύη
3 Α[[[·· c. 9 ··]]]Σ
1 Ἐγ̣ενήσθη Ἀλέξανδρος
1ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΟΜΗΡΙΣΤΟΥ
2ΔΙΑΣΚΕΥΗ
3Α[[[·········]]]Σ
1Ε·ΕΝΗΣΘΗΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Δημητρίου
ὁμηριστοῦ
<lb n="2" />
διασκεύη
<lb n="3" />
Α
<del>
<gap reason="lost" extent="9" unit="character" dim="internal" />
</del>
<orig n="unresolved" >
Σ
</orig>
</ab>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
ενήσθη
Ἀλέξανδρος
</ab>

Translation:

i: Equipment of Demetrios, homeristes

ii. ?He became Alexandros.

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:

Left end (1972)
 Left end (1972)
Left end (1976)
 Left end (1976)
Right end (1972)
 Right end (1972)

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