8.106. Acclamation of city Tyche and the Greens
- Description:
- Fragment from a white marble door post (H. 1.26 x W. 0.50 x D. 0.28) from one of the two door frames in the Ionic register of the stage front decoration
- Text:
- Inscribed with a graffito at 0.26 from edge on the inner face. There seems to have been an attempt to erase the second line.
- Letters:
- 0.02-0.035-0.015 (o). Square sigma, cursive eta
- Date:
- Fifth-sixth centuries A.D. (content, context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre V
- Original Location:
- Theatre: Ionic register of the stage front decoration
- Last recorded location:
- East of Theatre
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967 (excavation inventory no. 67.539)
- Bibliography:
- An inferior text published by Roueché as ALA 183; republished by Roueché, PPA 10
- Text constituted from:
- transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῆς πόλεος
- 2 κὲ τον Πρα̣σίνων
- 1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΟΣ
- 2ΚΕΤΟΝΠΡ·ΣΙΝΩΝ
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Νικᾷ
ἡ
τύχη
τῆς
πόλεος
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n="2"
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κὲ
τον
Πρ
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reason="damage"
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α
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σίνων
Translation:
The fortune of the city and of the Greens triumphs!
Commentary:
See PPA ad loc.
Photographs:
- Block (1989)
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- Detail (1989)
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