Description: Fragment from a white marble door post (1.26 x 0.50 x 0.28) from one of the two door frames in the Ionic register of the stage front decoration
Text: 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 CE (content, context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, Theatre V; Ionic register of the stage front decoration
Original location: Theatre: stage
Last recorded location: Theatre field depot
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
The fortune of the city and of the Greens triumphs!
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 67.539
Publication: An inferior text published by Roueché as Roueché, ALA 183 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 832 ; republished Roueché, PPA 10 , whence PHI PPAphr 10; IAph2007 8.106.
Images
Fig. 1. Block (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1989)