15.217. Votive offering to Kore by Alexandros
- Description:
- White marble stele/votive relief tapering towards the top (W. 0.225–W. 0.19 × H. 0.35 × D. 0.075).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face above a relief of a pair of sandals.
- Letters:
- 0.015; poorly aligned; ligatures: ΗΝ, l.3
- Date:
- The modesty of the lettering may create an impression of earlier date than is correct; but the Ξ and the small circular letters tend to indicate a late first century B.C. date
- Findspot:
- Unknown
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition before 1966 (Museum 108)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Ἀλέξανδρο[ς]
- 2 ὑπηκόῳ Κόρῃ [εὐ]
- 3χην ἀνέθηκα
- 1ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟ[·]
- 2ΥΠΗΚΟΩΚΟΡΗ[··]
- 3ΧΗΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΑ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Ἀλέξανδρο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
ὑπηκόῳ
Κόρῃ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εὐ
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
χ
ην
ἀνέθηκα
</ab>
Translation:
Alexandros, to Kore who listens: I dedicated (this in payment of ) my vow.
Commentary:
The sandals may suggest that something stolen had been found.
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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