<rs type="textType" reg="votive">Votive</rs> to Hekate Euantetos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble altar (stained), with simple moulding above and below, worked on all four sides, with a relief of a triple Hekate on the front face (0.14 × 0.28 × 0.20) .

Description of Text

Inscribed on the right side.

Description of Letters

Rough; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; unevenly aligned.

Date

Perhaps first to second century A.D. (lettering).

Edition Ζωτικὸς Εὐαντήτῳ εὐχήν
Apparatus

l. 2, Ν is written backwards.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

Translation

Zotikos pays his vow to the deity who is kindly to meet.

Commentary

This epithet for Hekate is discussed by Robert, loc. cit. ; cf. id Stele, Festschrift Kontoleon, Athens, 1977, 4.

Locations

Found: No details; in collection. Original location: Unknown. Last recorded: Vienna Museum, Inv. I 711 (L).

History of Recording

Found at Aphrodisias in or before 1894, when it entered the collection of the Vienna Museum.

Bibliography

Published by Rudolf Noll, Die griechischen und lateinischen Inschriften der Wiener Antikensammlung (Vienna 1962, republished 1986), no. 67, whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 285 and pl. 25, BE 1966.507, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 164.

Photographs

Face (Vienna Museum)
Right side (Vienna Museum)