Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.101. Votive to Hekate Euantetos

Description: A rectangular white marble altar (stained), with simple moulding above and below, worked on all four sides, with a relief of a triple Hekate on the front face (w: 0.14 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.20) .

Text: Inscribed on the right side.

Letters: 0.029; irregular; lunate epsilon, sigma, omega; nu reversed; unevenly aligned.

Date: Perhaps first to second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Plarasa (Bingeç), 1893.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Vienna Museum, Inv. I 711 (L)

Interpretive

Ζωτικὸϲ
Εὐα((ν))τήτ-
ῳ εὐχήν

Diplomatic

ΖΩΤΙΚΟϹ
ΕΥΑ((Ν))ΤΗΤ
ΩΕΥΧΗΝ

Apparatus

2: Ν is written backwards.

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Zotikos pays his vow to the deity who is kindly to meet (i.e. Hekate).

German translation

Translation source: Blümel, 2019

Zotikos (hat dies geweiht) der Gottheit, die man freundlich antrifft, in Erfüllung eines Geluübdes

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 II.61 in Bingeç

Publication: Noll, 1962 67 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 285 and pl. 25, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.507 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 164 ; IAph2007 15.101; Blümel, 2019 8

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Vienna Museum)