Description:
White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.
Text:
a: There are some traces of lettering on the east face. b: On the south face, a hole for a beam has been cut, which may have eliminated part of the following inscription.
Letters:
b: irregular and cursive, 0.02
Date:
Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
Findspot:
Theatre stage, portico across stage, seventh column from south.
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, PPA 6.7.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 a: (Nothing legible)
2 b:
3 (Lightly erased)
4 (Lightly erased)
5 ΓΑΙΑ̣ [·] ΕΥΝ̣
6 (deeply erased)
7 (deeply erased)
8 5 (deeply erased) ΣΤΡΟ
9 ΟΠ̣Ω
1A:(Nothing legible)
2B:
3(Lightly erased)
4(Lightly erased)
5ΓΑΙ·[·]ΕΥ·
6(deeply erased)
7(deeply erased)
85(deeply erased)ΣΤΡΟ
9Ο·Ω
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
a:
<note>
Nothing legible
</note>
<lb n="2" />
b:
<lb n="3" />
<note>
Lightly erased
</note>
<lb n="4" />
<note>
Lightly erased
</note>
<lb n="5" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
γαι
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ευ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<lb n="7" />
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<lb n="8" />
5
<note>
deeply erased
</note>
<orig n="unresolved" >
στρο
</orig>
<lb n="9" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ο
<unclear reason="damage" >
π
</unclear>
ω
</orig>
</ab>
Translation:
not usefully translatable.

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)
 View of stage columns (1985)
a, east face (1976)
 a, east face (1976)
b, south face (1976)
 b, south face (1976)

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