8.22. ?Place inscription of a ?biologos
- Description:
- The upper left corner of a plain block (W. 0.53 x H. 0.23 x D. 0.17).
- Text:
- inscribed on one face on a roughly-dressed surface..
- Letters:
- clear, irregular: standard beta, square sigma; 0.05-0.055
- Date:
- First to sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: stray
- Original Location:
- Probably Theatre: skene frons room
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.492)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 1.7.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 τόπος βιο[?λόγου]
- 2 ᾑ [·· c. 5 ··]Ο̣Υ̣ καὶ [·· ? ··]
- 2a [·· ? ··
- 1ΤΟΠΟΣΒΙΟ[·····]
- 2Η[·····]··ΚΑΙ[ - - - ]
- 2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
τόπος
βιο
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
λόγου
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
ᾑ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ου
</unclear>
καὶ
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2a"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="line"
dim="bottom"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Place ? of the bio[logos ......] and of [.....]neios
Commentary:
Almost certainly 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 (1985)
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