10.103. Votive offering to a goddess (?Aphrodite)
- Description:
- White marble round altar or base (diam. c. 0.35 × H. 0.45) with moulding above; broken below, and damaged at the back. There is a dowel hole in the top for an attachment.
- Text:
- Inscribed below the moulding.
- Letters:
- Well-cut; 0.028-0.03; square Σ, Υ with a cross-bar.
- Date:
- Perhaps second century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Stadium: a loose find, beside the track
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1985 (Museum 112; 85.154; SBI 88)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 Θεᾷ ἐπηκόῳ
- 2Εὔδαμος
- 3 bird εὐχὴν dolphin
- 4 scroll
- 4a vacat
- 1ΘΕΑΕΠΗΚΟΩ
- 2ΕΥΔΑΜΟΣ
- 3 bird ΕΥΧΗΝ dolphin
- 4 scroll
- 4a vacat
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Θεᾷ
ἐπηκόῳ
<lb
n="2"
/>
Εὔδαμος
<lb
n="3"
/>
<g
type="bird"
/>
εὐχὴν
<g
type="dolphin"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<g
type="scroll"
/>
<lb
n="4a"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
</ab>
Translation:
To the goddess who hears, Eudamos (pays his) vow
Commentary:
The decoration of a bird and a dolphin presumably refers to the wide authority over nature of Aphrodite Epekoos.
Photographs:
- Face (2001)
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- Left of face (2001)
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