Description: Three white marble column plinths.
Text: Inscribed 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, 0.12; ii, 0.125; iii, 0.13.
Date: Unknown.
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/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: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
i: The fortune of the Greens triumphs!
ii: Up with the fortune of the city!
iii: The fortune of the Blues triumphs!
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1985
Publication: Roueché, ALA 186, and plate xl, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 837, 838, 839 , ALA 2004 186, IAph2007 4.13; Chaniotis, 2024 NS244, NS233, NS227.
Images
Fig. 1. View of South Agora, looking north-west
Fig. 2. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. i: Face (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 4. ii and iii: View (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 5. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 6. ii: Block and paving (2002)
Fig. 7. iii: Face (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 8. iii: Face (M. Roueché, 1992)
Fig. 9. Drawing of Monogram i
Fig. 10. Drawing of Monogram iii