<rs type="textType"><seg cert="low">Place inscription</seg></rs> of Demetrios, homerist

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Wall of doorway to stage room.

Description of Text

i and ii on a partly smoothed face, 1.43 above ground. There are traces of several earlier inscriptions, which have been erased. ii. Cut above i, where it appears to have been squeezed in.

Letters

i: 0.03-0.04; traces of red paint. Lines 1-2 are cut in a clear, square hand, except for the second word in l.1; if this belongs to the text - as the sense suggests - it was added, in a cursive hand. The third line was more lightly cut, and is largely erased. ii:standard forms (with one lunate epsilon), lightly cut; the serifs are similar to those in 3.ii, 4.i, 5.i and 5.iv; letters ave. 0.035.

Date

First to sixth century A.D. (context)

Edition Δημητρίου ὁμηριστοῦ διασκεύη ΑΣ Ἐγενήσθη Ἀλέξανδρος
Translation

i: Equipment of Demetrios, homeristes

ii. ?He became Alexandros.

Commentary

One of the group of inscriptions, apparently by performers, at the doorways of the rooms on the stage front: 8.8, 8.9, 8.104, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22. See Roueché, PPA, pp. 15-25..

Locations

Theatre: skene frons, sixth stage room from north, on the north wall of the doorway. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 1.6

Photographs

Left end (1972)
Left end (1976)
Right end (1972)