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Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the east face. a: traces of a text in red paint. b: cut below a large square hole.

Letters

a: 0.05-0.06. b: Carefully inscribed and well aligned angular letters (rhomboid omicron and theta, square-bottomed omega), with serifs; fairly lightly cut, 0.025-0.03; l. 5 is in smaller letters (0.01), apparently squeezed in after the text had been cut.

Date

Third to fifth centuries A.D. (context, lettering)

Edition

Μελπομέ̣νη Οὐρανία Καλλιόπη

Κλιώ Ε Εὐτέρπη Θαλία Ἐρατώ Πολυμνία Μελπομένη sicΤερψικόρη Οὐρανία Καλλιόπη

c: There are further traces of letters further down, and, just above floor level, a graffito of a long-necked bird.

Apparatus

b, line 1: The E suggests that the cutter started to write Εὐτέρπη.

l. 7, the rho was squeezed in, and is barely determinable.

Translation

a: . . . Melpom]ene, [ .. . ., . . .] , Ourania, Kalliope

b: Klio, Euterpe, Thalia, Erato, Polymnia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Ourania, Kalliope

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.

Locations

Theatre: stage, portico across stage, thirteenth column from south. Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 6.13.

Photographs

View of stage columns (1985)

East face, upper part (1976)

East face, lower part (1976)