Description:
White marble double column (H. 2.24 × W. 0.27 × D. 0.52).
Text:
Cut on the flat face of the column, at H. 1.46 from the lower edge.
Letters:
Clear, angular, irregular letters, 0.025-0.03.
Date:
Fifth-sixth century (content)
Findspot:
Tetrapylon: in the eastern colonnade of the street to the east.
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1985.
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 184 and plate xli, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 833.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1νικᾷ ἡ τύχη
2τῶν Πρασί -
3νων.
1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗ
2ΤΩΝΠΡΑΣΙ
3ΝΩΝ
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Translation:

The fortune of the Greens triumphs!

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 X.6.

Photographs:

Column (1985)
 Column (1985)
Detail (1985)
 Detail (1985)
Base (2004)
 Base
(2004)

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