Description:
Fragment from a white marble door post (H. 1.26 x W. 0.50 x D. 0.28) from one of the two door frames in the Ionic register of the stage front decoration
Text:
Inscribed with a graffito at 0.26 from edge on the inner face. There seems to have been an attempt to erase the second line.
Letters:
0.02-0.035-0.015 (o). Square sigma, cursive eta
Date:
Fifth-sixth centuries A.D. (content, context)
Findspot:
Theatre V
Original Location:
Theatre: Ionic register of the stage front decoration
Last recorded location:
East of Theatre
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967 (excavation inventory no. 67.539)
Bibliography:
An inferior text published by Roueché as ALA 183; republished by Roueché, PPA 10
Text constituted from:
transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1 Νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῆς πόλεος
2 κὲ τον Πρα̣σίνων
1ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΟΣ
2ΚΕΤΟΝΠΡ·ΣΙΝΩΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Νικᾷ
τύχη
τῆς
πόλεος
<lb n="2" />
κὲ
τον
Πρ
<unclear reason="damage" >
α
</unclear>
σίνων
</ab>

Translation:

The fortune of the city and of the Greens triumphs!

Commentary:

See PPA ad loc.

Photographs:

Block (1989)
 Block (1989)
Detail (1989)
 Detail (1989)

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