Description:
Wall plaster, in doorway to stage room.
Text:
The letters are scratched with a very fine point on a patch of remaining plaster.
Letters:
l.1: 0.025; l.2: 0.02-0.025; ll.3-4: 0.01(o)-0.02.
Date:
Fourth to sixth centuries A.D. (content)
Findspot:
Theatre: skene frons, northernmost chamber: doorway, on the south wall, a little further into the room, below and to the left of 8.9
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1970.
Bibliography:
Published by Alan Cameron, Porphyrius p. 276; by Roueché, ALA 182, and again PPA 1.iii.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 νικᾷ ἡ τύχη
2 τῶν Πρασίνων
3κ(αὶ) τον μίμον τοῦ
4 Πρασίν(ου)
1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗ
2ΤΩΝΠΡΑΣΙΝΩΝ
3ΚΤΟΝΜΙΜΟΝΤΟΥ
4ΠΡΑΣΙΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
νικᾷ
τύχη
<lb n="2" />
τῶν
Πρασίνων
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αὶ
</supplied>
</expan>
τον
μίμον
τοῦ
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Πρασίν
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ου
</supplied>
</expan>
</ab>

Translation:

The fortune of the Greens, and of the mimes of the Green (faction) triumphs !

Commentary:

One of the group of inscriptions, apparently by performers, at the doorways of the rooms on the stage front: 8.8, 8.9, 8.104, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.20, 8.21, 8.22. See Roueché, PPA, pp. 15-25..

Photographs:

Face (1972)
 Face (1972)
Face (1969)
 Face (1969)

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