4.13. Acclamations of the Greens, the City and the Blues
- Description:
- 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:
- Fifth-sixth century (content)
- Findspot:
- 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) . .
- 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 186, i-iii, and plate xl, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 837, 838, 839.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- i
- 1 νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν
- 2 (Πρασίνων)
- ii
- 1 αὔξι ἡ τύχη τῆς πό(λεως)
- iii
- 1 νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν
- 2 (Βενέτων)
- i
- 1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΩΝ
- 2 monogram
- ii
- 1ΑΥΞΙΗΤΥΧΗΤΗΣΠΟ
- iii
- 1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΩΝ
- 2 monogram
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νικᾷ
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Πρασίνων
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αὔξι
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λεως
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νικᾷ
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Βενέτων
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Translation:
i. The fortune of the ?Greens triumphs!
ii. Up with the fortune of the city!
iii. The fortune of the ?Blues triumphs!
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 X.8.
Photographs:
- View of South Agora, looking north-west
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- i: Face (1985)
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- i: Face (1988)
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- ii: Block and paving (2002)
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- iii: Face (1985)
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Representations:
- Drawing of Monogram i
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- Drawing of Monogram iii
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