Description:
Fragment from the bottom of a white marble panel (W. 0.255 × H. 0.26 × D. 0.09).
Text:
Inscribed on a rather rough surface.
Letters:
poorly cut; c. 0.04; circular stop in l.1, square sigma; letters in guidelines.
Date:
A.D. 128/9-138 (reign, titulature)
Findspot:
Theatre, Skene
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.254)
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
0       vacat
1 vv. Δὶ stop [·· ? ··]
2 vv. Μαξιμ[·· ? ··]
3 v. Ὀλυμπ[ίῳ·· ? ··]
4 Σεβασ[τῷ] ·· ? ··]
4a       vacat
0       vacat
1  ΔΙ stop [ - - - ]
2  ΜΑΞΙΜ[ - - - ]
3 ΟΛΥΜΠ[·· - - - ]
4ΣΕΒΑΣ[··] - - - ]
4a       vacat
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="1" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Δὶ
<g type="stop" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Μαξιμ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Ὀλυμπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ίῳ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4" />
Σεβασ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῷ
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="4a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
</ab>

Translation:

To Zeus; (reference to) Maxim[us], ( to) Olymp[?ios](and to) Augustus/i.

Commentary:

Perhaps similar in construction to 8.708 (=74.73), and so one of several small 'altars' dedicated to Hadrian: cf. also 9.119 (=81.98).

Photographs:

Face (1977)
 Face (1977)
Face (1977)
 Face (1977)

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