Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.104. Acclamation for the Greens and their mimes

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: Line 1 : 0.025; line 2: 0.02-0.025; lines 3-4: 0.01(o)-0.02.

Date: Fourth to sixth centuries CE (content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage, 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: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

νικᾷ ἡ τύχη
τῶν Πρασίνων
κ(αὶ) τον μίμον τοῦ
Πρασίν(ου)

Diplomatic

ΝΙΚΑΗΤΥΧΗ
ΤΩΝΠΡΑΣΙΝΩΝ
ΚΤΟΝΜΙΜΟΝΤΟΥ
ΠΡΑΣΙΝ

English translation

Translation source: Roueché, PPA

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. .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1970.

Publication: Cameron, 1976 276 (cited); Roueché, ALA 182whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 831 ; Roueché, PPA 1.iii, whence PHI PPAphr 1.1.iii; ALA 2004 182, IAph2007 8.104.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1969)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)