5.117. Votive offering to Asklepios
- Description:
- White marble panel/Votive relief, approximately square (W. 0.155 × H. 0.14 × D. 0.06).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face, in a rectangular area above a relief of two breasts.
- Letters:
- ave 0.01; square sigma, omega; badly cut and poorly aligned.
- Date:
- Third century A.D.
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: south west sector.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.570)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 εὐεπηκόῳ Ἀ-
- 2σκληπίῳ Εὐγενί-
- 3α εὐχὴν ἀνέθηκεν
- 1ΕΥΕΠΗΚΟΩΑ
- 2ΣΚΛΗΠΙΩΕΥΓΕΝΙ
- 3ΑΕΥΧΗΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
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εὐεπηκόῳ
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σκληπίῳ
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ἀνέθηκεν
Translation:
To Asklepios who listens well: Eugenia dedicated (in payment of) a vow
Commentary:
One of a group of votive offerings dedicated to Asclepius: three reliefs, 5.112 (=63.568), 5.117 (=63.570), 15.240 (=70.551), and a base, 4.113 (=90.26); the three with provenance were found in or near the Baths of Hadrian.
The cult title is quite common, and implies that the prayer had been answered; it was probably for a child rather than for cure of trouble in the breasts.
- Photographs:
- none.
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