8.89. List of muses
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave; the column is broken away at the top of the text.
- Text:
- On the east, smooth, face. At H. 1.55 above floor level;
- Letters:
- Deep-cut, well-aligned and elegant, 0.03-0.04; lunate omega and sigma, and other ‘late’ forms
- Date:
- Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage, first column from south.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.1
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 [Κλι]ώ
- 2 Ε̣ὐτέρπη
- 3 Θαλία
- 4 Μελπομένη
- 5 Τερψιχόρη
- 6 Ἐρατώ
- 7 Πολυμνία
- 8 Οὐρανία
- 9 Καλλιόπη
- 1[···]Ω
- 2·ΥΤΕΡΠΗ
- 3ΘΑΛΙΑ
- 4ΜΕΛΠΟΜΕΝΗ
- 5ΤΕΡΨΙΧΟΡΗ
- 6ΕΡΑΤΩ
- 7ΠΟΛΥΜΝΙΑ
- 8ΟΥΡΑΝΙΑ
- 9ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ
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Κλι
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ώ
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Ε
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ὐτέρπη
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Θαλία
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Μελπομένη
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Τερψιχόρη
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Ἐρατώ
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Πολυμνία
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Οὐρανία
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Καλλιόπη
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Translation:
Klio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania, Kalliope
Commentary:
One of a series of inscriptions on the columns supporting the architrave on the stage (which carries 8.1): 8.89, 8.98, 8.90, 8.91, 8.92, 8.93, 8.94, 8.95, 8.96, 8.97 . All the inscriptions are on the stage side of the columns, and were presumably only visible to those using the stage. See Roueché, Performers and Partisans, Chapter III.
Photographs:
- View of stage columns (1985)
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- East face (1976)
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