186. Acclamations of the Greens, the City and the BluesCharlotte M. Roueché2003
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Description of Monument
Three white marble column bases.
Description of Text
Cut 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.
Description of 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, c. 0.12; ii, 0.125; iii, 0.13.
Translation
i. The fortune of the Greens triumphs!ii. Up with the fortune of the city!iii. The fortune of the Blues triumphs!
Commentary
See discussion at X.3, for
the colours, and X.8.
Found
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) . See plan 2.
Original location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1985.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity 186, i-iii, and plate xl, whence PHI837,
838, 839.