Description: White marble doric half-column, supporting stage architrave; the column is broken away at the top of the text.

Text: On the east, smooth, face. At 1.55 above floor level;

Letters: Deep-cut, well-aligned and elegant, 0.03-0.04; lunate omega and sigma, and other ‘late’ forms

Date: Third to fifth century CE (context, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: portico across stage, first column from south.

Original location: Theatre, stage

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

Klio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania, Kalliope

Commentary

One of a series of inscriptions on the columns supporting the architrave on the stage (which carries 8.1): 8.89, 8.98, 8.90, 8.91, 8.92, 8.93, 8.94, 8.95, 8.96, 8.97 . All the inscriptions are on the stage side of the columns, and were presumably only visible to those using the stage.

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