<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> by Dionysios on behalf of Ammia

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Small white marble altar (0.16 × 0.325 × 0.14) moulded above and below. The upper moulding has spaces on either side of reliefs, probably of breasts. Two olive branches are sculpted on the front.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, enclosed by the olive branches.

Letters

Lightly scratched, lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive alpha; l.1, 0.01; ll. 2-4, 0.007-8. Uneven in height and alignment. It presumably initiated a poorly written cursive document.

Date

Presumably before the Edict of Caracalla (lettering, nomenclature); but cf. lettering of 8.904 (=68.51) which refers to a M. Aurelius.

TextΔιονύσιος ὑπὲρ Ἀμμίας εὐχήν
Translation

Dionysios on behalf of Ammia (in payment of) a vow.

Commentary

Presumably a husband dedicating to Asklepios on behalf of his wife. It is a reasonable guess that the unstated reason is a problem relating to her breasts.

Locations

Unknown Found: City, Village: stray find; Last known location: Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Brought in to the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.51)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1966)
Face (1977)

KTE 65.32.4