Description:
Upper right corner of a white marble altar (H. 0.12 × W. 0.135 × D. 0.09), with the upper moulding chiselled away and the face damaged, perhaps by burning.
Text:
Graffiti scratched on the face.
Letters:
Late Hellenistic, unevenly sized and spaced, ave. 0.015; lunate Ε, Σ, and Ω.
Date:
Perhaps first century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
re-used in the Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: 'S.W. Bouleuterion, Tr. 3.C, Str.1'
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1971)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.433).
Bibliography:
Published by •Reynolds & Tannenbaum, Jews and Godfearers at Aphrodisias, appendix, 12, whence BE 1988.888, SEG 1987.854, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 174.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds and Tannenbaum (1987).
1[·· ? ··]Τάτας
2[·· ? ·· θ]ε̣ῷ ὑψί̣σ̣τ̣ῳ̣
2a[·· ? ··
1[ - - - ]ΤΑΤΑΣ
2[ - - - ·]·ΩΥΨ····
2a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Τάτας
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
θ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
ὑψ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ίστῳ
</unclear>
<lb n="2a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, the last four letters are badly damaged but visible on the stone.

Translation:

[·· ? ··] Tatas [·· ? ··] to the highest god [·· ? ··]

Commentary:

See discussion, Reynolds and Tannenbaum. loc. cit. It is possible that Tatas gave a first name.

Photographs:
none.

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