Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.284. Votive offering to Morsynus

Description: Small white marble base or altar cut down for re-use (w: 0.245 × h: 0.31 × d: 0.175); an upper moulding has been cut away on all but the left side, and the back has been carved out as if to insert a beam.

Text: Inscribed on the face, below the moulding.

Letters: Not very deep or elaborate; 0.025.

Date: Second to first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: loose find

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Ἡρακλείδης
Ἡρακλείδου
Μορσύνῳ εὐ-
( vac. )χήν ( vac. )
[( vac. )?]

Diplomatic

ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗΣ
ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ
ΜΟΡΣΥΝΩΕΥ
      ΧΗΝ      
[...]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Heraklides son of Heraklides to Morsynus (in payment of) a vow.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 68.361.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)