ISic004405: Small altar dedicated to Aphrodite
- ID
- ISic004405
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of Tréziny 2018
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small limestone altar, with mouldings top and bottom at the front and sides, smooth behind, and a depression in the upper surface.
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 4.5 cm, width: 7.5 cm, depth: 6.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek letters are incised into the front face, occupying most of the space between the mouldings, with a more or less consistent left margin and an uneven right margin
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 3-7mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 2-4mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 0-2mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Megara Hyblaea
- Provenance found
- Found after the original publication of the Hellenistic temple north of the agora, in excavation of 1968 of the area of the archaic building 'k' (Megara 1), c.20 m north-east of the Hellenistic temple, in re-use in a late wall
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Megara Hyblaea, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Megara Hyblaia , MH C22
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
2nd — 1st century BCE (200 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The first line is not entirely clear in (the publication provides a drawing only, no photograph). The curved trace after 'eta' is compatible with a lunate sigma (compare small lunate epsilon in line 2). Based upon searches of LGPN, the female name Μηστρία is attested once from Messene in Greece in the imperial period; the male name Μέστριος is attested 7 times in the region of Macedonia, Thrace and the Black Sea; the male name Μήστωρ is more common, attested already in Homer, and in Sicily at Selinus in the Archaic period (IGDS II.26) (see the extensive discussion of the name by P. Bernard in Bernard Paul, Bopearachchi Osmund. Deux bracelets grecs avec inscriptions grecques trouvés dans l'Asie centrale hellénisée. In: Journal des savants, 2002, n°2. pp. 237-278, at 251-254. Μηστριος is presumably therefore the most likely reading.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 10/13/2022