Description: Wall of stage building. The blocks were left rough, with a smooth outline along the edges.
Text: Scratched on some smoothed patches, some of them at least prepared to offer guidelines for the architects planning the Theatre façade. a above, b below and to the south, c below b, d between a and b.
Letters: a. Large letters, scratched and irregular, with cursive alpha and omega, av. 0.08. b: tiny letters 0.01. c: Below b. Large letters, irregular, cut with a thin point, av. 0.08. d: very large letters in red paint, 0.17-0.19.
Date: First to sixth centuries CE (context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage, skene frons, on the stretch of wall between the second and third doorways from the north.
Original location: Theatre, stage buildings
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
b: θεόδοτος Roueché, PPA, IAph2007; Θεοδᾶτος Chaniotis, 2011
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
(a): Good season!
(b): Theodatos (Theodotos) loves Hypsikles
(c): God, help!
(d): [---] triumphs [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: c: Roueché, ALA 135 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 771 , ALA 2004 135, IAph2007 8.110. All: Roueché, PPA 7.a, 7.b, 7.c, 7.d , whence PHI PPAphr 7.a. PPAphr 7.b, PPAphr 7.c, PPAphr 7.d; IAph2007 8.10; b: Chaniotis, 2011 205 (b), whence SEG 61.847 .
Images
Fig. 1. Text a (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Text b (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Text c (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. a. (right end), b. and c. (M. Roueché, 1976)