IGII34 1262 Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Daphnis

Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Daphnis

IG II³ 4 1262 Date: 2nd - 3rd cent. AD

To Zeus the Highest, Daphnis set up this vow.^[1] ✴

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References:

IG II³ 4 1262 (Translated text) (IG Online)

SEG 28.231 (PHI)

Translation by: Peter Liddel

Images: Boston Museum of Fine Arts - (1)

Monument type: Plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Zeus Hypsistos)

Findspot: Athens (Museum of Fine Arts G.01Res.08.34b)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This is identified as one of a number of imperial period dedications to Zeus Hypsistos (“Zeus The All High”) deriving possibly from the former site of the Athenian Assembly on the Pnyx. For other such dedications see AIUK 4.5 no. 13, with notes. Many of them take the form of anatomical votives. This example represents a vulva. It must have some connection with female health, although we need not necessarily assume that the dedicant was suffering from a disease or injury directly afflicting the genitalia or reproductive organs. A connection with fertility more generally is also possible. Two other representations of vulvae survive among the inscribed dedications to Hypsistos: see IG II³ 4, 1254 and IG II³ 4, 1270 = AIUK 4.5 no. 20. For vulvae deriving from places in Attica other than the Pnyx as dedications to Aphrodite, see IG II³ 4, 1519-21, 1532.

This example was purchased in Athens in the early twentieth century by Edward Perry Warren (1860 -1928) and was presented to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Added: 15 Mar 2022
Updated: 15 Mar 2022
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