Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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186. Acclamations of the Greens, the City and the Blues
Description
- Monument:
Three white marble column bases.
- Text:
Cut on the southern faces of the three bases. The columns
stand on a fairly high stylobate, so that the inscriptions, although
below eye-level, would have been clearly visible.
- Letters:
Lightly but carefully cut, with some decorative flourishes;
thus in iii the central upright of the omega is used as the
upright of a cross. They are tall: i, c. 0.12; ii, 0.125; iii, 0.13.
- Date:
Text
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νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν
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(?Πρασίνων) |
| ii |
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αὔξι ἡ τύχη τῆς πό(λεως)
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| iii |
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νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν
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(?Βενέτων) |
Translation
i. The fortune of the ?Greens triumphs!
ii. Up with the fortune of the city!
iii. The fortune of the ?Blues triumphs!
Photographs
| View of South Agora, looking north-west |
i: Face (1985) |
i: Face (1988) |
ii: Block and paving (2002) |
iii: Face (1985) |
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Representations
| Drawing of Monogram i
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Drawing of Monogram iii
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Commentary
See discussion at X.3, for
the colours, and X.8.
Locations
- Found:
South Agora, north portico: on the south face of three
adjacent column bases. There is a gap in the columns of the north
portico, but the westernmost of these texts (i) appears to be on the
twentieth column base from the west (not twelfth, as in ALA) . See plan 2.
- Original:
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1985.
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity 186, i-iii, and plate xl, whence PHI 837,
838, 839.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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