8.207. Votive offering to ?Zeus
- Description:
- Round-topped white marble stele (W. 0.24 × H. 0.37 × D. 0.22) with sculptured relief of a god holding up a double axe in his left hand (?Zeus Labraundeus or Nineudios).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the base below, on a roughly dressed surface, which is chipped at left edge and broken away at right.
- Letters:
- Lightly cut, with small serifs; rho with a tail, beta with a flat base; 0.023
- Date:
- Probably comparatively early , first century B.C. to first century A.D. (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Theatre, NPS I
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1973 (73.104)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Κόρυνβος [·· ? ··]
- 2 θεῶι εὐχή[ν ·· ? ··]
- 1ΚΟΡΥΝΒΟΣ[ - - - ]
- 2ΘΕΩΙΕΥΧΗ[· - - - ]
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Κόρυνβος
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
θεῶι
εὐχή
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ν
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
Κorynbοs to [the] god [?who listens] (in payment of) a vow.
Commentary:
The name of the dedicator also occurs in 11.29 (=CIG 2843). The first line was probably completed with the name or a term differentiating the divinity: e.g. Νινευδίῳ; the second perhaps with ἀνέθηκεν.
- Photographs:
- none.
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