Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

2.504. Dedication to Theos Hypsistos

Description: Upper right corner of a white marble altar (w: 0.135 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.09), with the upper moulding chiselled away and the face damaged, perhaps by burning.

Text: Graffiti scratched on the face.

Letters: Late Hellenistic, unevenly sized and spaced, ave. 0.015; lunate Ε, Σ, and Ω.

Date: Perhaps first century BCE to first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: re-used in the Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: 'S.W. Bouleuterion, Tr. 3.C, Str.1'

Original location: Findspot, in secondary use

Last recorded location: Museum (1971)

Interpretive

[---]Τάτας
[---θ]ε̣ῷ ὑψί̣σ̣τ̣ῳ̣
[------]

Diplomatic

[---]ΤΑΤΑΣ
[---.].ΩΥΨ....
[------]

Apparatus

2: The last four letters are badly damaged but visible on the stone.

Translation

[---] Tatas [---] to the highest god [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 65.433

Publication: Reynolds and Tannenbaum, 1987 appendix, 12 , whence BE 1988.888 , SEG 37.854 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 174 ; IAph2007 2.504.

Images

Fig. 1. 1.111, 1.14.c (part), 2.504 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)