8.6. Acclamation for Ourania
- Description:
- Two joining fragments of a white marble beam with a simple moulding H. (0.27 x together W. 2.12 x D. 0.41)
- Text:
- Painted in red on a white background within a red frame along the lower edge; now in fairly bad condition.
- Letters:
- elegant, 0.09, similar to (unpublished); lunate sigma, epsilon.
- Date:
- First – sixth century A.D. (context)
- Findspot:
- Theatre
- Original Location:
- Theatre: stage building, from a series of such beams which spanned the space between the Zoilos architrave and the front of the stage buildings; it seems likely, although not yet certain, that this block would have run at right angles to (unpublished).
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated in the Theatre in 1972 (excavation inventory no. 70.562).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Roueché, PPA 4
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[··] Ε̣ [··] Θ̣Α̣[··] πᾶσα νίκη τῇ κύρᾳ Ο̣ὐρ̣α̣[νί]ᾳ
- 1[··]·[··]··[··]ΠΑΣΑΝΙΚΗΤΗΚΥΡΑ·Υ··[··]Α
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ε
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ΘΑ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
/>
πᾶσα
νίκη
τῇ
κύρᾳ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ο
</unclear>
ὐ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρα
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
νί
</supplied>
ᾳ
Translation:
[...]All victory to the Lady Ourania !
Commentary:
See Roueché, ad loc.
Photographs:
- Left hand block (1972)
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