8.209. Votive offering to Kore Plyarei by Diogenes and Tatias
- Description:
- Rather crude white marble altar with very simple moulding above and below (W. 0.25 × H. 0.62 × D. 0.25).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.015-0.017; partly in counter-relief; poorly cut and shaped. Square and lunate epsilon. ΝΗ in ligature, l. 1.
- Date:
- Perhaps third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Theatre: N. Analemma, during destruction of Mosque.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1975)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.28)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Διωγένης
- 2 μετὰ Τατιάς
- 3Κούρῃ Πλυαρει
- 4 εὐ̣χήν
- 1ΔΙΩΓΕΝΗΣ
- 2ΜΕΤΑΤΑΤΙΑΣ
- 3ΚΟΥΡΗΠΛΥΑΡΕΙ
- 4Ε·ΧΗΝ
Apparatus
The counter-relief makes the readings often difficult; it would be possible to argue for Διιωγένης and Παπίας.
Translation:
Diogenes with Tatias to the Koure of Plyara.
Commentary:
This seems likely to be one of the earliest inscriptions from the site. The letters are atypical but could be of the second century B.C. (though also much later). The deity (presumably Kore, the maiden) is described by an ethnic adjective relating her to a city known only from a text, probably of the second century B.C. (ὁ δῆμος ὁ Πλυαρέων in 2.506 (=BE 1973.398)), found at Aphrodisias; it must certainly have been a nearby place and to some the evidence suggests that it may have been Aphrodisias under an earlier name. This inscription can be taken to support this view.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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