8.256. Panel dedication with imperial reference
- 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- Unpublished.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
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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)
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- Face (1977)
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