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προσκήνιον , τό,
A.entrance of a tent, LXX Ju.10.22.
2. porch of a house, PRyl.233.4 (pl., ii A.D.).
II. raised platform in front of stage-buildings, stage, IG11(2).153.14,158 A67 (Delos, iii B.C.), 7.423 (p.745, Oropus, ii/i B.C.), Plb.30.22.4, TAM2.408.9 (Patara, ii A.D.), OGI510.5 (Ephesus, ii A.D.), Poll.4.123; “ἡ τύχη παρελκομένη τὴν πρόφασιν καθάπερ ἐπὶ προσκήνιον” Plb.Fr.212; Lat. proscaenium, Vitr.5.7.1.
2. painted scenery at the back of the stage, Duris 14J.; “τὸ προσκάνιον ἱστάτω Ἡρακλείοις” SIG481 B 4 (Delph., iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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