Altar <rs type="textType" cert="low">dedication</rs> by Diogenes son of Damonikos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble altar with moulding above and below on three sides, a little chipped along the edges (0.29 × 0.39 × 0.27).

Description of Text

The face carries a relief showing a thunderbolt and below this an inscription.

Letters

0.015; poorly aligned and uneven; square sigma, near-cursive mu

Date

Second to first century B.C. (lettering)

Edition Διογένης Δαμονικοῦ
Translation

Diogenes son of Damonikos dedicated this

Commentary

No comment

Locations

Unknown Tetrastoon: in topsoil Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.126)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1973)