<rs type="textType">Acclamation</rs> for the Greens and their mimes

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

Wall plaster, in doorway to stage room.

Description of Text

The letters are scratched with a very fine point on a patch of remaining plaster.

Letters

l.1: 0.025; l.2: 0.02-0.025; ll.3-4: 0.01(o)-0.02.

Date

Fourth to sixth centuries A.D. (content)

Edition νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τῶν Πρασίνων καὶ τον μίμον τοῦ Πρασίνου
Translation

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. See Roueché, PPA, pp. 15-25..

Locations

Theatre: skene frons, northernmost chamber: doorway, on the south wall, a little further into the room, below and to the left of 8.9 Findspot Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1970.

Bibliography

Published by Alan Cameron, Porphyrius p. 276; by Roueché, ALA 182, and again PPA 1.iii.

Photographs

Face (1972)
Face (1969)