Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

14.33. Altar of dedication

Description: A white marble altar (w: 0.27 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.21), wihout moulding; the upper edge is damaged, the surface is rubbed and worn, and the upper and lower corners are lost. On the face, a labrys in relief.

Text: Inscribed above the relief

Letters: Neat and round, 0.01; lunate sigma and omega

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

Findspot: Plarasa (Bingeç) built into the corner of a house wall.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1977)

Interpretive

Ο [c. 8]ΟϹ
Ἀπολλοδώρου
Διὶ εὐχὴν
Α̣ΡΑΘΟΥϹΙΟϹ

Diplomatic

Ο[········]ΟϹ
ΑΠΟΛΛΟΔΩΡΟΥ
ΔΙΙΕΥΧΗΝ
.ΡΑΘΟΥϹΙΟϹ

Apparatus

3: More roughly written - an addition?
4: A name?

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

. . . ] Apollodoros, a prayer to Zeus [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1977

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Text (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Text (M. Roueché, 1977)