8.98. List of Muses
- Description:
- White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave
- Text:
- On the east face. a: Bottom line at H. 1.53 above ground level; there is a square hole, apparently intended to hold a beam, immediately above the text. The text has been erased, but it is possible to make out all the letters. b: Below a, H. 1.375 above floor. The first word is deeply and clearly cut, with a square sigma, the remaining letters were lightly cut, and a shallow cross was later cut over them; apparently unfinished; immediately below there are traces of red paint.. c: Below b, at H. 0.48 above floor. ll. 1 and 2 very lightly cut; l. 3 deep cut.
- Letters:
- a: more thinly cut than Column 1, and less regularly aligned, but still elegant, elegant forms, av. 0.03. b: av. 0.04. c: in a more irregular hand. 0.02 (omicron)-0.03.
- Date:
- Third to fifth centuries A.D. (context, lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre stage, portico across stage: second column from south.
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 6.2
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Κλιώ̣
- 2 Ε̣ὐτ̣έ̣ρ̣πη
- 3 Θ̣α̣λ̣ί̣α̣
- 4 Ἐρατώ
- 5 Πολυμνία
- 6 Μελπ̣ομ̣έ̣ν̣η
- 7Τερψικόρη (sic)
- 8 Οὐ̣ρανία
- 9 Καλλιόπη leaf
- 1 πᾶσα νίκη ΤΙ vac.
- 1 Ν
- 2ΗΑΑ
- 3τόπο(ς)
- 1ΚΛΙ·
- 2·Υ···ΠΗ
- 3·····
- 4ΕΡΑΤΩ
- 5ΠΟΛΥΜΝΙΑ
- 6ΜΕΛ·Ο···Η
- 7ΤΕΡΨΙΚΟΡΗ(sic)
- 8Ο·ΡΑΝΙΑ
- 9ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ leaf
- 1ΠΑΣΑΝΙΚΗΤΙ
- 1Ν
- 2ΗΑΑ
- 3ΤΟΠΟ
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Κλι
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ώ
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Ε
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ὐ
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τέρ
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πη
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Θαλία
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Ἐρατώ
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Πολυμνία
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Μελ
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μέν
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Τερψι
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όρη
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Ο
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ὐ
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ρανία
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Καλλιόπη
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τι
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τόπο
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Translation:
a: Klio, Euterpe, Thalia, Erato, Polymnia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Ourania, Kalliope.
b: All victory [ ? to . . .
c: Place [ . . .
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, PPA, Chapter III.
Photographs:
- View of stage columns (1985)
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- East face, a and b (1976)
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- East face, b and c (1976)
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