Description: Two lead (or bronze ) tablets each shaped rather like a shoe-heel (i. w: 0.055 × h: 0.057 × d: 0.0027; ii. w: 0.055 × h: 0.056 × d: 0.0023); probably a single piece of metal folded in half and later broken along this weakened line.

Text: Each scratched on one face, on the surface that would have been concealed by the fold.

Letters: i. 0.007–0.01; ii. 0.005-0.007; in ii. Α has [[crooked]] cross-bar; Ν written backwards; Θ is diamond-shaped, which perhaps suggests second to third centuries C.E., but the lettering is too informal for confidence. Looks Roman rather than Hellenistic.

Date: Probably Roman. Many of the coins are first century BCE, but the hoard as a whole covers too wide a date range to offer a useful terminus ante quem. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias, in what may be an altar foundation in the North Agora, along with coins covering a long period from Hellenistic onwards, as well as animal bones.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1988)

Translation

i. [To] Eirene.

ii. ... set up the votive ...

Commentary

Eirene (in the dative) is presumably the divinity to whom this votive is dedicated, but she is not attested as a goddess in Aphrodisias. Eirene as the dedicant (and therefore in the nominative) would be difficult, as the

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