8.708. Altar dedication for Hadrian
- Description:
- White marble altar, originally with moulding below on three sides (W. 0.30 × H. 0.69 × D. 0.345); top rough and perhaps intended to carry a crowning feature; hollowed out and re-used as a trough with a circular hole (? for a pipe) cut in the original face.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.027
- Date:
- 129-138 A.D. (reign, titulature)
- Findspot:
- Theatre Baths: East Aula Thermale
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1974 (74.73; SBI 11)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 v. Ἁδριανῷ v.
- 2 vv. Σωτῆρι v.
- 3 vac. Διὶ vac.
- 4 [ v. Ὀ]λυμπίῳ v.
- 4a vacat
- 1 ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ
- 2 ΣΩΤΗΡΙ
- 3 ΔΙΙ
- 4[··]ΛΥΜΠΙΩ
- 4a
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Ἁδριανῷ
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Σωτῆρι
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Διὶ
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Ὀ
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λυμπίῳ
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Translation:
To Hadrian the Saviour Zeus Olympios.
Commentary:
One of several small 'altars' dedicated to Hadrian: 9.119 (=81.98), ?8.256 (=70.254)
The title Zeus Olympios is thought to follow from the dedication of the Olympieion at Athens in autumn 129.
The absence of a dedicator's name is unexpected.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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