Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.712. Votive offering to divinity

Description: Rectangular white marble base/votive relief (w: 0.36 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.14) with face chipped to right and to left. Above, a pair of ears in relief.

Text: Inscribed on the face, beneath the relief.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Second to third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre Baths: during clearing.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[Εὐ]πρέπηϲ̣ ( vac. 1) Θε[ῷ]
[ἐπηκόῳ?] εὐχή[ν]

Diplomatic

[..]ΠΡΕΠΗ.  ΘΕ[.]
[......]ΕΥΧΗ[.]

Apparatus

1: Or θε[ᾷ, θε[οῖς
2: At the beginning, instead of the epithet the deity might have been named - e.g. Ἀφροδίτῃ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[Eu]prepes to the god [?who listens] (in payment of) a vow.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 68.360.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)