<rs type="textType">Acclamation</rs> for Ourania

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Two joining fragments of a white marble beam with a simple moulding (0.27 x together 2.12 x 0.41)

Description of Text

Painted in red on a white background within a red frame along the lower edge; now in fairly bad condition.

Letters

elegant, 0.09, similar to 603; lunate sigma, epsilon.

Date

First – sixth century A.D. (context)

Edition Ε ΘΑ πᾶσα νίκη τῇ κύρᾳ Οὐρανίᾳ
Translation

[...]All victory to the Lady Ourania !

Commentary

See Roueché, ad loc.

Locations

Theatre Theatre: stage building, from a series of such beams which spanned the space between the Zoilos architrave and the front of the stage buildings; it seems likely, although not yet certain, that this block would have run at right angles to 603. Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Excavated in the Theatre in 1972 (excavation inventory no. 70.562).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 4

Photographs

Left hand block (1972)