Description of Monument
White marble double column (2.24 × 0.27 × 0.52).
Description of Text
Cut on the flat face of the column, at 1.46 from the lower
edge.
Description of Letters
Clear, angular, irregular letters, 0.025-0.03.
Date
Fifth-sixth century (content)
Edition
νικᾷ ἡ τύχη
τῶν Πρασί
νων.
Translation
The fortune of the Greens triumphs!
Commentary
See discussion at X.3, for
the colours, and X.6.
Found
Tetrapylon: in the eastern colonnade of the street to the
east.
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 184 and plate xli, whence PHI 833.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Photographs
Category of Text
acclamation; factional.
Category of Monument
column.