34. Verse honours for Androcles, a benefactor Charlotte M. Roueché 2002-10-23

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Description of Monument

The cornice below the rim of the Theatre stage.

Description of Text

On the upper fascia of the cornice is a second-century inscription (SEG 26.1220); below that is a protruding moulding, and below that two fasciae, on the upper of which (0.07 high) this text is cut. The letters are very lightly cut, with red paint still to be seen in some of them. Those that survive are below the centre of the stage, on the fifth, sixth and seventh blocks from the north end; since all the blocks are in place, it seems likely that the rest of the text, including the gaps in this fragment, was painted, and either not incised at all, or cut so shallowly that it can no longer be detected.

Description of Letters

0.055-0.06; very simple.

Date

Fourth century (lettering).

Edition εὐεργεσίης Ἀνδροκλέους νει
Translation

benefaction of Androcles EI

Commentary

See discussion at III.40.

Found

Theatre: on the rim of the stage. See plan 6.

Original Location

Findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Found during the NYU excavations in the Theatre.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 34, whence PHI 715, Steinepigramme 02/09/94.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Left end (1978)

Theatre stage view (1973)

Theatre centre stage view (1973)

Category of Text

verse; building inscription.

Category of Monument

cornice block