IGII34 1267 Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Chrysarin

Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Chrysarin

IG II³ 4 1267 Date: 2nd - 3rd cent. AD

. . . . . . Relief . . . Chrysarin, to Hypsis- (5)-tos, a vow.^[1]

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IG II³ 4 1267 (Translated text) (IG Online)

SEG 19.225 (PHI)

Agora XVIII 619

Translation by: Peter Liddel

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)

Monument type: Plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Hypsistos)

Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 4294)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This is 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. Above the bottom two lines of the inscription, within a sunken panel, there is a moulding of two cylinders, representing probably a pair of human thighs cut off above the knee. It must have some connection with health, although we need not necessarily assume that the dedicant had suffered from a disease or injury directly afflicting the thighs. Isolated single letters appear on the frame of the panel, but their significance is unclear. The dedicator's name, Chrysarin, is a contracted form of Chrysarion, cf. Philemati(o)n in AIUK 4.5 no. 16.

Added: 15 Mar 2022
Updated: 28 Mar 2024
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