Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.374. Dedication to Zeus and Aphrodite(?)

Description: Part of the upper left hand side and corner (w: 0.22 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.41) of a white marble altar with moulding above, broken away at the right side and below.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.02; dot for stop; tranches are thin and serifs rudimentary.

Date: Second to first century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

( vac. 1) Διὶ ((stop)) Σω̣[τῆρι?]
( vac. 4) ((leaf)) κ̣α̣[ὶ θεᾷ?]
Ἀφροδ̣[είτῃ c. 6]
Ι̣Ε̣Ρ̣[c. 10]
[------]

Diplomatic

  ΔΙΙ Σ.[....]
         ..[....]
ΑΦΡΟ.[....······]
...[··········]
[------]

Apparatus

1: Omega is small and lightly incised
4: The traces are very unclear

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

To Zeus the [saviour] and [goddess] Aphrod[ite . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 68.271.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1968)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)