8.95. Graffiti
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.
- Text:
- a: on the east face, b: cut into the fluting on the west. c, on the south face.
- Letters:
- c: lightly cut letters, 0.02-0.03
- Date:
- Third to fifth century A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage, eleventh column from south.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.11.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- (There are traces of letters)
- (a cross carefully cut)
- 1 Ἡλ̣ιώ̣̣δο̣[ρ](?ος)
- (There are traces of letters)
- (a cross carefully cut)
- 1Η·Ι·̣Δ·[·]
<note>
There are traces of letters
</note>
<note>
a cross carefully cut
</note>
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ἡ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
ι
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ώ
</unclear>
̣δ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ο
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</abbr>
ρ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
cert="low"
>
</expan>
ος
</supplied>
Translation:
Heliodoros or (place of) Heliodoros
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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- a, east face (1976)
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- b, south face (1976)
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