<rs type="textType">Votive</rs> offering to Kore by Alexandros

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble stele/votive relief tapering towards the top (0.225–0.19 × 0.35 × 0.075).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face above a relief of a pair of sandals.

Letters

0.015; poorly aligned; ligatures: ΗΝ, l.3

Date

The modesty of the lettering may create an impression of earlier date than is correct; but the Ξ and the small circular letters tend to indicate a late first century B.C. date

Edition Ἀλέξανδρος ὑπηκόῳ Κόρῃ εὐχην ἀνέθηκα

Translation

Alexandros, to Kore who listens: I dedicated (this in payment of ) my vow.

Commentary

The sandals may suggest that something stolen had been found.

Locations

Unknown Found: Unknown ; Last known location: Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition before 1966 (Museum 108)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)