<rs type="textType">Votive</rs> offering to a goddess (<seg cert="low">Aphrodite</seg>)

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble round altar or base (diam. 0.35 × 0.45) with moulding above; broken below, and damaged at the back. There is a dowel hole in the top for an attachment.

Description of Text

Inscribed below the moulding.

Letters

Well-cut; 0.028-0.03; square Σ, Υ with a cross-bar.

Date

Perhaps second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition Θεᾷ ἐπηκόῳΕὔδαμος εὐχὴν
Translation

To the goddess who hears, Eudamos (pays his) vow

Commentary

The decoration of a bird and a dolphin presumably refers to the wide authority over nature of Aphrodite Epekoos.

Locations

Stadium: a loose find, beside the track Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985 (Museum 112; 85.154; SBI 88)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (2001)
Left of face (2001)

KTE85.69.2-3