<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> by Gaius Volousios, mime actor

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital

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Description of Monument

Small white marble altar moulded above and below (0.115 × 0.255 × 0.10) with damaged relief of a winged figure with cloak behind on the face: the head is lost (but without a scar) and the place of the letters of the cognomen allows for it. There is a further figure to the left.

Description of Text

Inscribed i. on the upper moulding, which is damaged, ii. on the face above the relief, iii. on the lower moulding.

Letters

Irregular, but not ill-cut; cursive sigma and omega; 0.01-0.04. Dash for abbreviation.

Date

First to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ισμιδιι Γάιος Βολούσιος βιοτικός χι
Translation

ii. G(aius) Vol(ousios) mime-actor

Commentary

This record of a mime actor was not included in Roueché, PPA

Locations

Theatre VII, on surface Unknown Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Found by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.117)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)

KTE 68.4.2