Description: Wall of doorway to stage room.
Text: Inscribed on a rough surface. To the left, the letters have been worn or rubbed away, and a hole has been cut into line 2.
Letters: Irregular, lunate, 0.04-0.07; perhaps two hands. There are traces of red paint in some letters.
Date: First to sixth century CE (context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage, skene frons, northernmost chamber, doorway, south wall, to the right of 8.104.
Original location: Theatre: stage buildings
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
Of Pardalas, mime. Equipment of Syrus, after Philistion
or
Equipment of Pardalas, Syrian mime, after Philistion
Commentary
One of the group of inscriptions, apparently by performers, at the doorways of the rooms on the stage front: 8.8, 8.104, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: Roueché, PPA 1.1.ii , whence PHI PPAphr 1.ii; IAph2007 8.9.
Images
Fig. 1. Left end (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 2. Centre (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. Right end (M. Roueché, 1977)