<rs type="textType">Votive</rs> offering to Asklepios by Amias

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Rectangular white marble panel/votive relief with round-headed projection above (0.17 × 0.145 × 0.04).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face on the projection with one line impinging on the block below, which carries a relief of two breasts.

Letters

0.008; square sigma.

Date

Perhaps second century A.D. (lettering).

Edition Ἀμιας θεῷ Ἀσκληπίῳ εὐ χήν
Translation

Amias, to the god Asklepios (in payment of) a vow

Commentary

One of a group of votive offerings dedicated to Asklepios: three reliefs, 5.112 (=63.568), 5.117 (=63.570), 15.240 (=70.551), and a base, 4.113 (=90.26); the three with provenance were found in or near the Baths of Hadrian. We have benefited from comments made by the late Sara Aleshire.

Locations

Unknown Found: Hadrianic Baths: South West sector; Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.568)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)

[[66A.2.48, 49; KTE 62/64.65.2, 3]]