AIUK45 no. 18 Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Tertia

Dedication to Zeus Hypsistos by Tertia

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 18 Date: 2nd-3rd cent. AD

Tertia, to the Highest (God), a vow. Relief^[1]

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References:

AIUK 4.5 (BM, Dedications) no. 18 (Translated text) (AIO) (AIUK)

IG II² 4801 (PHI)

IG II³ 4 1259 (IG Online)

GIBM I 63

Translation by: Peter Liddel, Polly Low

AIO Images: 1 2

Monument type: Plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Hypsistos)

Findspot: Pnyx (BM 1816,0610.218)

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[1] This is one of a number of imperial period dedications to Zeus Hypsistos (“Zeus The All High”) deriving 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. Beneath the inscription there is a moulding representing the lower part of a human face. It must have some connection with health, although we need not necessarily assume that the dedicant was suffering from a disease or injury directly afflicting the face. For other examples of votive inscribed faces, see Agora XVIII V 598-602 (dedications to Heros Iatros).

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