<rs type="textType">Votive</rs> <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> by children of Hermias

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A white marble altar (0.305 at top, 0.265 centre, 0.35 at base × 0.84 × 0.56) with moulding above and below on three sides, which has been cut away on the left side. The back is rough.

Description of Text

Inscribed (l. 1) on the upper moulding, and (ll. 2-5) on the face, above a relief of a swag with a pendant object.

Letters

0.0175–0.024; square sigma, lunate omega

Date

First to third centuries A.D. (terminology)

Edition θεοῖς ἐπηκόοις Εὐάνθης καὶ Φιλήτη οἱ Ἑρμίου ὑπὲρ τῶν ἰδίων εὐχήν
Translation

To the gods who listen: Euanthes and Philete, children of Hermias paid the vow for their family.

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

UnknownNecropolis, North-east: Turkish cemetery: re-used in the east wall findspot (1976).

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (56); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 108, no. 23, whence Weinreich, MDAI(A) 37, 1912, 20, no. 94; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 456, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 173.

Photographs

Face (1976)