Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.15. Place inscription of archeologoi

Description: Wall of doorway to stage room.

Text: 1.19 above floor. Cut on a rough surface. A hole was later cut in the inscribed surface, destroying 2 or 3 letters.

Letters: Lunate: 0.04-0.05

Date: First to sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: on the northern wall of central stage corridor, left of the entrance doorway to stage room 3, which opens onto the north side of the central corridor.

Original location: Theatre, stage buildings

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

τόποϲ̣ [ἀρ]χ̣εολόγων

Diplomatic

ΤΟΠΟ.[..].ΕΟΛΟΓΩΝ

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Place of archaeologoi.

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.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition

Publication: Roueché, PPA 1.3.i, whence PHI PPAphr 1.3.i; IAph2007 8.15.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)