8.104. Acclamation for the Greens and their mimes
- Description:
- Wall plaster, in doorway to stage room.
- Text:
- The letters are scratched with a very fine point on a patch of remaining plaster.
- Letters:
- l.1: 0.025; l.2: 0.02-0.025; ll.3-4: 0.01(o)-0.02.
- Date:
- Fourth to sixth centuries A.D. (content)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: skene frons, northernmost chamber: doorway, on the south wall, a little further into the room, below and to the left of 8.9
- Original Location:
- Findspot
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1970.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Alan Cameron, Porphyrius p. 276; by Roueché, ALA 182, and again PPA 1.iii.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 νικᾷ ἡ τύχη
- 2 τῶν Πρασίνων
- 3κ(αὶ) τον μίμον τοῦ
- 4 Πρασίν(ου)
- 1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗ
- 2ΤΩΝΠΡΑΣΙΝΩΝ
- 3ΚΤΟΝΜΙΜΟΝΤΟΥ
- 4ΠΡΑΣΙΝ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
νικᾷ
ἡ
τύχη
<lb
n="2"
/>
τῶν
Πρασίνων
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
αὶ
</supplied>
τον
μίμον
τοῦ
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
</ab>
<abbr>
Πρασίν
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ου
</supplied>
Translation:
The fortune of the Greens, and of the mimes of the Green (faction) triumphs !
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. See Roueché, PPA, pp. 15-25..
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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- Face (1969)
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