2.504. Dedication to Theos Hypsistos
- 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>
ῷ
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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