<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Theos Hypsistos

Joyce M. Reynolds and Robert Tannenbaum1987

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Originally published in Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).

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Description of Monument

Upper right corner of a white marble altar (0.12 × 0.135 × 0.09), with the upper moulding chiselled away and the face damaged, perhaps by burning.

Description of Text

Graffiti scratched on the face.

Description of Letters

Late Hellenistic, unevenly sized and spaced, ave. 0.015; lunate Ε, Σ, and Ω.

Date

Perhaps first century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering).

Edition Τάτας θεῷ ὑψίστῳ
Apparatus

l. 2, the last four letters are badly damaged but visible on the stone.

Translation

Tatas to the highest god

Commentary

See discussion, Reynolds and Tannenbaum. loc. cit. It is possible that Tatas gave a first name.

Locations

re-used in the Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: 'S.W. Bouleuterion, Tr. 3.C, Str.1'. UnknownMuseum (1971).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.433).

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 12, whence BE 1988.888, SEG 1987.854, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 174.

Photographs

66.1.96; 71.A