<rs type="textType">Graffiti</rs> of a <seg cert="low">pyrrhic dancer</seg>

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Wall of stage building. The blocks were left rough, with a smooth outline along the edges.

Description of Text

Cut on a small space which has been smoothed, on an otherwise rough surface, but is not filled by the inscription (0.12 x 0.13).

Letters

Small letters, 0.01-0.018; rough, irregular, and difficult.

Date

First to sixth centuries A.D. (context).

Edition ? πυρριχιστής ὁ α ΑὐρήλιοςΣυμ
Apparatus

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Translation

?The first pyrrhich(istes), Aur(elius) Sym[ . ..

Commentary

The reading and interpretation of this text is extremely uncertain; but it does seem likely to be a reference to the Pyrrhiche, a kind of war-dance which was very popular in the Roman imperial period, and is attested in contests at Aphrodisias (11.305.IV.i.5, 11.21.iii.9; see also Robert, Hell. I, 151-2, J. and L. Robert, Claros I, 58-9, W. Slater, ‘Orchestopala’, ZPE 81 (1990), 215-20). ὁ α´ can probably be taken as ὁ πρῶτος ‘the first’. If the phrasing has been interpreted correctly, the performer’s name was never completed. See Performers and Partisans, ad loc..

Locations

Theatre: on the front face of the stage buildings, on the stretch of wall between the fifth and sixth doorways from the north Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 7.e

Photographs

Face (1983)
Face (1976)