8.90. Graffiti
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave
- Text:
- On the east face, a above b. a, starting at the left edge. b, letters more loosely drawn
- Letters:
- a: a few lightly drawn letters, 0.03. b: 0.04
- Date:
- Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage, third column from south
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.3
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 ΘΕΙ̣Ν̣
- 1 Ν vac. ΤΑΚ
- 1ΘΕ··
- 1Ν ΤΑΚ
<ab>
<note>
a graffito sketch of the upper part of a face; below:
</note>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
</ab>
θε
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ιν
</unclear>
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ν
</orig>
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
</ab>
τακ
</orig>
Translation:
No translation possible.
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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