Description: Fragments of fresco on wall plaster. The original design appears to have been a series of circular garlands of green leaves,
outlined inside and outside with a sold band;
The fragments come from at least three such garlands; fragment iv may well come from the same text as fragment iii.
Text: The lettering is inscribed inside the garlands, in red on a white background.
Letters: 0.07-0.08, tall and clear; diairetic dots on Ι in iii, line 2, and, apparently, on the second Ι in line 4 of ii; three dots as a stop in ii, 1ine 3; abbreviation: ΙΝΔ with a comma hanging from delta, Ο with Υ above.
Date: 583 CE (internal date)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Hadrianic Baths: North Tepidarium.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths: North Tepidarium
Last recorded location: Museum.
Interpretive
i
((scroll))[---]((scroll))
((Cross)) νι[κᾷ] ἡ τύχη
τοῦ β[αϲι]λέωϲ·
νικᾷ ἡ τ[ύ]χη τῆϲ
5δεϲπο̣ί[ν]ηϲ· τοῦ νέου
Θεοδο̣[ϲί]ου πολ-
λὰ [τὰ ἔτ]η ((scroll)) ii
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[---]Λ̣Ι̣Ι̣ΟΥ π̣ο[λλὰ]
[τὰ ἔτ]η̣· υἱὲ θεοῦ ζ[ωὴν]
[αὐτ]ῷ ((stop)) νικᾷ ἡ πί̣ϲ̣[τιϲ]
[τῶν] Χριϲτιανῶν [.]
[---] ( vac. 3) iii
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ἐ̣π̣ὶ O[.]
[πα]τρός, ἰνδ(ικτίωνος) δευ-
[τέ]ραϲ ( vac. 3)
[..]Ι̣Λ̣ ( vac. 3) ((scroll))
((scroll)) iv
[---]Ι
[---]Υ
[---]Λ̣
[------]
Diplomatic
i
.[---].
† ΝΙ[..]ΗΤΥΧΗ
ΤΟΥΒ[...]ΛΕΩϹ
ΝΙΚΑΗΤ[.]ΧΗΤΗϹ
5ΔΕϹΠ.Ι[.]ΗϹΤΟΥΝΕΟΥ
ΘΕΟΔ.[..]ΟΥΠΟΛ
ΛΑ[....]Η ii
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[---]...ΟΥ.Ο[...]
[....].ΥΙΕΘΕΟΥΖ[...]
[...]Ω • ΝΙΚΑΗΠ..[...]
[...]ΧΡΙϹΤΙΑΝΩΝ[·]
[---] iii
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..ΙO[·]
[..]ΤΡΟΣΙΝΔΔΕΥ
[..]ΡΑϹ
[··]..
iv
[---]Ι
[---]Υ
[---].
[------]
French translation
Translation source: Feissel, 2010
(i): victoire à la fortune de l’empereur ! victoire à la fortune de l’impératrice! longues années au Nouveau Théodose!
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition excavated in 1962, removed in 1966-7: 67.102 and 69.473 (together, i), 69.471 (ii), 69.470 (iii). 69.472 (iv).
Publication: Roueché, ALA 61.i-iv, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 843, 844, 628 and 894 , ALA 2004 61, whence Feissel, 2010 265, whence SEG 60.1077; IAph2007 5.24.
