IGII34 676 Dedication to Hygieia by Pythod[elos]

Dedication to Hygieia by Pythod[elos]

IG II³ 4 676 Date: ca. 400-350 BC

On rim . . . Hygieia . . . but matter . . . On side [Pythod]elos dedicated this, [son of Pythod]oros [of Athal]idai

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References:

IG II³ 4 676 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG II² 4360 (PHI)

Peek, AVI 22 (PHI)

CEG 2, 766

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Basin

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Hygieia), metrical

Findspot: Acropolis (EM 10692)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This is a perirrhanterion, a raised marble dish, rather like a modern bird-bath, which visitors to sanctuaries used to purify themselves before entering sacred areas. The inscription indicates that it derives from the Asklepieion on the south slope of the Athenian Acropolis, where Hygieia, the personification of “Health,” was worshipped as the daughter of Asklepios (on this sanctuary and its inscriptions, see IG II³ 4, 665 with notes). This perirrhanterion may have been used by visitors seeking healing to purify themselves before undertaking the ritual of ‘incubation’, in which they slept in the sanctuary overnight in the hope of receiving a prophetic dream from Asklepios explaining how to heal their illness (cf. IG II³ 4, 718). The first line is inscribed around the rim of the bowl. The rest of the inscription is on the side. Pythodelos also dedicated IG II³ 4, 675.

Added: 15 May 2025
Updated: 15 May 2025
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