Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

14.32. Altar dedication

Description: A white marble altar, with simple moulding: h: 0.44 × d: 0.18

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.07

Date: First to third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Plarasa (Yaikin): 'dans l'étable de Machmoud-Oglou-Ibrahim'.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1898)

Interpretive

κατὰ προ-
φητείαν
θεοῦ Σαυ-
α̣[ζιο?]υ ((scroll))
[------]

Diplomatic

ΚΑΤΑΠΡΟ
ΦΗΤΕΙΑΝ
ΘΕΟΥΣΑΥ
.[...]Υ
[------]

Apparatus

4: Λ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

According to the prophecy of the god Sau[azios (?)

Bibliography

Transcription: Doublet and Deschamps, 1887 (Yaï-ken); Paton, 1898 (Yaikin)

Publication: Doublet and Deschamps, 1890 5 (only a majuscule transcription), Paton, 1900 4, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 952, Blümel, 2019 9

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