Description: Wall of doorway to stage room.

Text: i and ii on a partly smoothed face, 1.43 above ground. There are traces of several earlier inscriptions, which have been erased. ii was cut above i, where it appears to have been squeezed in.

Letters: i: 0.03-0.04; traces of red paint. Lines 1-2 are cut in a clear, square hand, except for the second word in line 1; if this belongs to the text - as the sense suggests - it was added, in a cursive hand. The third line was more lightly cut, and is largely erased. ii:standard forms (with one lunate epsilon), lightly cut; the serifs are similar to those in 8.16, 8.17 and 8.18.ii; letters ave. 0.035.

Date: First to sixth century CE (context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage, skene frons, sixth stage room from north, on the north wall of the doorway.

Original location: Theatre, stage buildings

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

i: Equipment of Demetrios, homeristes

ii. ?He became Alexandros.

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. .

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