Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.376. Invocations to the winds

Description: White marble altar (w: 0.22 × h: 0.66 × d: 0.175) with simple moulding above on all four sides and below on three (a, c and d); on face a there is a relief of busts of sun and moon above and an eagle below.

Text: Inscribed on faces b, c and d, in each case above an area which shows signs of erasure,

Letters: 0.02; lunate sigma, omega, lunate and square epsilon; poorly aligned.

Date: Perhaps second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

b
Νο-
τοϲ
c

i
Ζέφυ-
ροϲ
ii
Βορέ-
αϲ
d
Ἀφηλι-
ωτηϲ

Diplomatic

b
ΝΟ
ΤΟϹ
c

i
ΖΕΦΥ
ΡΟϹ
ii
ΒΟΡΕ
ΑϹ
d
ΑΦΗΛΙ
ΩΤΗϹ

Translation

(b): South wind

(c): North Wind, West Wind

(d): East Wind

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 63.434, Museum 106.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face b (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 3. Face c (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 4. Face d (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)